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Bobby Murray grew up on a hard scramble 'stump ranch' in the costal mountains of Western Washington. Number 12 out of 15 children, mostly boys, her farm chores were to collect free-range chickens eggs, or pick garden vegetables at just the right moment, to help feeding her hard to please big appetite brothers. Something she cooked didn't turn out just right; well she could expect to, "have a knot jerked into her tail." If that is hard to visualize, than try this: an eight-year old scrambling to keep up with wood-fired range cooked toast her father dealt out at the table, as if a deck of cards.
When old enough to escape her professional, but unpaid cooks position, Bobby talked a conventional husband into following her dream of taking the kids across America in a pre-home schooling adventure of learning history from highways wayside markers. She built out a 1949, bug-eyed, Griffin "chip and nut van," with bunk beds, and away they went. When they would run out of money, Bobby would pick up a temporary job cooking in a Chinese, Mexican, fish and chips, Elks club, cowboy/oilfield cafe, to fill the tank a few times over with $0.28 gasoline, and away they would go.
Adventurous -and bold- enough to answer Barry Murray's macho Internet plea from Alaska for a, "good looking mail-order bride who didn't mind doing dishes." Bobby took the challenge and did him 'one better' by writing up her first bush Alaska experience for Barry's www.AlaskaTravelMagazine.com with an article on how-to-do sourdough that pops up on page one of search engine queries. Bobby's free "Alaska Sourdough Recipes," have been downloaded 100,000 plus times, and she is still getting e-mail from all over the world with pictures of yet another "perfect sourdough loaf," such as you can't find in grocery stores.
Bobby was introduced to the Camp Chef system by buying a 2-burner propane stove wide enough to heat up a portable griddle large enough to hold impromptu AlaskaTravelMagazine.com sourdough 'flapjack' breakfasts in RV campgrounds in Apache Junction, Arizona, Big Bend National Park, Texas, and Silk Hope, North Carolina. These fit in very well into a motor home society where dinner party socializing has been replaced by pot luck, state pride, cook off's. | 