He's a big enviro.
He returned from a camping trip once gushing how great it was to commune with nature and how we've 'lost something' and how great it would be to return to a 'pre-modern lifestyle'.
Mind you he was blabbering this nonsense as he was putting away his lightweight nylon tent, caring for his Gore-Tex boots, his DuPont Holo-Fil sleeping bag and cold weather gear, cleaning up the Coleman fuel stove, and packing away the rest of his dehydrated meals packed in their nitrogen filled mylar reinforced aluminum foil packages.
He then extolled the virtues of his Katydin water filter with its ceramic filter cartridges and remarked that he was glad he had a couple of Bic lighters with him because his matches got wet.
That happened when some water splashed into the Kevlar canoe he had rented for his triumphant return to the embracing bosom of Mother Nature.
All I did was smile.
Sometimes people make things too easy.
L
Note to squeamish: skip to next post now.
People like this need to experience the joys of pulling intestinal worms out of their rear ends with sticks, like our premodern ancestors.
Carolyn
When I think about what Lewis and Clark went through, or more importantly, President (the General) Washington went through at Valley Forge! (Shudder!)
I don't even like going outside anymore!
Mark
Most people, when they return from camping, extol the virtues of finally being able to use a real bathroom.
Wow. Awesome post.
Well said.
Was watching an episode of "Survivorman" on the Science Channel this week, where the survival expert was plopping his face in a lake in moose country, drinking deep then marking his camp in case of bears.
Couldn't help wondering how long the dude was in the hospital after that particular episode.
He probably could have used one of those ceramic water filters just about then...