Mindless Drivel

just finished reading through some of my last posts…who the hell was writing those?  bitter bastard, thats for sure.  dont know how he got on here…

so, im back.  no promises for regularity, but maybe at least there will be the occasional funny or informative.  just enough to keep both of my loyal readers checking in from time to time.  heres a pic to keep you coming back for more.

from our (kinda) recent trip to tulum, mexico.  this is a canal (about 1/4 mile long if i recall correctly) built by the mayans to connect two lagoons, so that they would have access to the ocean.  we were taking a boat tour and in a canal further down the way were able to swim and float along with the current.

been busy so far this summer (and it isnt even summer yet).  kayaking, backpacking, moving (ok that happened in march, clearly not the summer), camping, and of course, the girlfriend.   she may take up a lot of my time, but shes worth every second.

we went car camping this weekeend while we attended FIBArk, which is a big white water festival in the town of salida.  much fun.  anyway, i had our big plastic jug for water with us in the back of the truck, and when brenda made the first pour of water into her hands, she notice that there were little swimmers in the water that looked like larvae of some sort…actually, they didnt look like larvae, they were.  i came to realize that when i "topped off jug" that morning, i hadnt considered how long the "old" water had been in there.  lets just say that it had been a few months. 

theres two levels of grossness to deal with here.  1) we almost washed ourselves with and drank some manky water that had larvae of who knows what kind of insect (im betting on mosquitos).  2) how did they get in there?  that jug had been sealed the entire time it was hiding in the basement.  were they in there before i sealed it up (which means we were consuming some form of buggy the last time we used it), or while the jug was being stored, did they somehow penetrate the plastic without leaving any obvious leaks?  ugh.  yuck.  big yuck.

my advice…empty your water jug and dry it immediately after each use!

-b

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