GPzMike Abroad

Well, I've still not taken any pictures...I'm just not a picture takin' sorta fellow. I really should change that for this trip: I say that every trip I go on.

I did take readings of the concrete today: 104F at 10am, 118F at noon. From there I just didn't want to know.

My drink count was somewhere in excess of 2 gallons...no wait, that can't be right. I'll count again tomorrow. If nothing else the counting keeps me aware and I won't likely dehydrate. Besides, it'd be kinda fun to know just how much water I consume for the trip. Well...okay...keeping a water journal for 3 months doesn't sound like much fun...perhaps I'll do it for a week or something then just multiply by 12.

The great news today was that I actually had an appetite for both lunch and dinner. Rice and beans and goat (cooked very very well which in this case I don't mind as it's actually quite good). Lettuce, onions, and tomatoes as a salad of sorts. Dinner much the same with things switched around a bit.

Andriya and I went to the market and got avocados which are going off fast so I ate one by mashing the meat up in the shell, pouring in some Dave's Insanity Roasted Garlic and calling it guacamole. No chips...sigh.

Good day of framing up the rest of the school walls. A tad more to do tomorrow and then build the desks and louvered windows. We are waiting on the trucks to free up so they can transport the walls to the site for us. The slab crew finished up today so everything is pretty much running on schedule...as long as the trucks can get to us before the end of the week.

The tent weathered the rain storm very well. The floor did not leak as I'd suspected - the only rain that got in was from the few minutes that I didn't have the rain fly on/closed up as I was tossing my belongings into the tent. The only near miss was the book I'm reading. That wasn't the near miss, but rather the photos that Jen H secreted in the book before I left Oakland. But they came through unscathed despite the book floating about for a few minutes in the deluge. Thank the Gods for that tidbit of luck.