I receive a daily email update called: The Daily Dose from an online outdoor gear retailer Steep and Cheap. The company has an unusual business model; sell just one item on the site (currently Black Diamond Raptor crampons) for about 25 minutes - or until it's gone. The product are typically deeply discounted (44 percent off the raptors) and the time limit creates an auction style, get-it-before-it's-gone, feeding frenzy.
While many of the products are gnar (just kidding) my shallow Peace Corps pockets keep me far removed from an electronic shopping cart. The daily dose is usually a humorous story or witty observation; today it was incredibly relevant and hilarious.
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I was in Ecuador and there was a warning posted in the airport that people should boil or treat their water before drinking it. The warning was in Spanish and I don't speak Spanish, but my travel companion noticed and told me. Later in the trip we stopped at a farm that grows sugarcane and coffee. The farmer had a small still that he would used to make sugarcane moonshine. For some reason we were talking about the water boil notice, and the guy at the still told me that if I got a stomach bug all I had to do to cure it was to drink a cup of his moonshine and then eat a spoonful of sand. I questioned how this could possibly work, and he told me that the microbes in your stomach all get drunk off the moonshine and then throw rocks at each other.
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Funny thing is - I think I have been to the same farm.
Cheers against the microbes.
love it Joe
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