I’m hoping we can steer him more toward other things. We’ll see. He was born in 1928 to a large farming family and learned a lot of lessons through the Depression. What he was never able to learn is that once you have a huge amount saved for retirement, you can actually start to use it when you’re in your 90s to buy things you prefer over what’s cheapest, and you don’t need a coupon for every single purchase.
With my aunt, I know what she eats at Thanksgiving, but that’s about it. I think she’ll be open to new things, but she could prefer “meat and potato” traditional American.
I guess there’s always pizza (somewhere). They both like that. I saw hot dogs listed at the food trucks at the GC. Hopefully they’re good ones and not the cheapest version money can buy. I know Amtrak has them too if they prefer that to the dining car meals which are included when one buys room/roomettes. If FIL gasps at the prices on their menu we can simply tell him that’s what the coach/business folks have to pay. Ours are “free.”
Meanwhile I muse about H and I sneaking off to Chinatown in SF to eat at Hong Kong Clay Pot (which we loved) or there was a terrific Thai place near the Botanical Gardens - or try somewhere new. Maybe we’ll get food delivered and everyone can take their pick when in SF. We’ll figure that all out as we go along.
H and I are flexible. This trip is for FIL’s 94th birthday and to let them see some sights they’ve never seen. If we must eat oodles of hot dogs along the way, so be it, but I hope not!