Of course, the point of this article is online video hasn't nearly peaked yet--but the troubling thing for those in the industry looking for a messiah at VIDCON is that when a Youtuber is successful, it means providing for themself and maybe a couple of others... not the staff of 350 hungry, Upper West Side lunch-eating mouths that Good Morning America used to feed.
The guides brought hot soup and sandwiches for a slope-side lunch, and furnished special wide "fat-board" skis for powder conditions.
Jackson Hole Iditarod Sled Dog Tours, (307) 733-7388, or at www.jhsleddog.com, offers a half-day, 12-mile round trip along Granite Creek in Bridger-Teton National Forest with a campfire-side lunch for $135 a person; a full day's outing runs $225.
We'd prearranged a shoal-side lunch through our Mockingbird Hill Hotel hostess, Shireen, an invaluable resource who set up all of our activities for the three-day visit.
The location, known as "G-Pool," was long the site of the popular "Dine With Shamu" experience, in which guests pay extra to have a tank-side lunch or dinner, with a more intimate and low-key demonstration by one of the park's orcas.
But Jim Allenby and Trego shared 64 for the fifth wicket either side of lunch to steady things.
Ben Stokes rallied alongside Bairstow in a partnership of 59 acquired either side of lunch.
By then the score was 98 for five but Karl Brown and Liam Livingstone did manage to steady the ship either side of lunch.
I set off next for the huge Lake Taupo, driving around it to Turangi on the other side for lunch.
Then, after that pair and Liam Dawson fell in 11 overs either side of lunch, Michael Carberry – whose desire is dwindling, his coach Dale Benkenstein admitted – and Sean Ervine put on 52.
Somerset had battled hard with the new ball, as the runs dried up during an excellent spell from Craig Overton either side of lunch.
