Our bear viewing guide recommended Fresh Sourdough Express because it had on-line ordering. We could order on-line well ahead of our trip and it would be ready the morning of our early departure. Too bad it didn't work out that way.

We ordered on-line. There was no place to give a credit card or otherwise secure our order. I figured it was pay when you pick up. On the on-line order form there's a place to put a phone number and we had put my husband's cell number. Cell service is spotty in Alaska and we did not get the message until we arrived in town after they had closed, the night before our bear trip. Their message said we had failed to provide a credit card number so our order would be only partially ready in the morning. I called and left a message on their machine saying to please have it ready because we definitely were counting on it.

Knowing there might be a snaffoo we arrived with 20 minutes extra to get our lunch. Bottom line, nothing was done on our order, it took them more than 20 minutes to prepare it and we were nearly late for our bear trip!

After all that, our food was lousy. Yes it was homemade bread but it tasted like cardboard and was hard. They gave us one pack of mayo and one pack of mustard which didn't nearly wet this very dry, hard sandwich. The cookie was good. No regular soda, funky healthy canned drinks. I need my diet coke!

AND the on-line price for lunch was wrong. Our lunch cost about $3 more per person. By the time we got to the paying part we were so late I just paid and didn't bring out the confirmation papers to prove that the price was too high. It cost $30 for two bad lunches.

The next day we were going on a fishing trip and again needed lunch. The night before we stopped at Subway and got two fabulous, regular old, familiar Subways for $10!