[pct-l] The Evils of Caffeine :-)

[cvano at tmail.com]

Well, there's three things I gotta have, hiking or no.  Coffee, 
cigarettes, and rum, not necessarily in that order.  (Well, I gave up 
cocaine and chasing women... that oughta count for something!)  I can do 
without the tofu but I do like my red meat.  And Pepsi.  And avocados.  
And chocolate.  Hey, at 55 some things are just life and not gonna 
change anytime soon.  So I bought a bunch of UL gear recently and 
dropped my base weight about 50 pounds.  I'm used to 80lb packs and blue 
jeans in the rain.  So I'm down to 25lbs base and some new hi tech 
clothes and stuff.  By golly, I can afford some luxeries.  The three 
afore mentioned items are included in the base weight.  They are not 
luxeries IMHO but necessities.  To each his own.  BTW, coffee, 
cigarettes AND rum are the things that keep this old man 'regular' and 
sometimes even civil };-)>  Take any of those three away and I'll go 
hunting bear with a switch AND WIN!  Now, about this dehydrated 
rum.....  Wonder if I need to keep it in the bearvault next to the tubes 
of BenGay and Preperation H.  I hate it when I mix those two up in the 
morning....

Beyond this point
There be dragons...

Chris ~ S/V Drifter
Anacortes, WA. ~~~_/) ~~~