After traveling together now for a little over a week we have found that we are very compatible travelers and that our individual genious is significantly enhanced by working together, making us indestructable in our godlike state. These amateur LonelyPlanet guidebooks have nothing on ¨Jay and Jenny´s Step by Step Guide to the Entire Universe on $3 a Day.¨ The Times touts this travel bible as the ¨ultimate traveling tool for today´s granola eating, windpant wearing, idealogical, soul-searching, cultural immersion seeking- but standing out like a sore thumb- backpacker.¨ Uncle Eddy´s Pack Up the Camper and Go guide calls this indispensible manual ¨sacred.¨ The scripture features such tips as: (1) save money by eating (packaged) food off the bus floor, (2) when using the toilet simply root through the waste bin for the cleanest wad of used paper instead of blowing your wad on a roll of fancy, overpriced new TP, (3) if you truly wish to get a taste of the local flavor, rather than hiring a tour guide, simply follow around one of the many available stray dogs and get an authentic perspective on the city. All the tips mentioned above have been tried and tested and have been met with favorable results say Jen and Jay............ of course we have been sick with a mild case of diarrhaea for the last two days. (the above named guide, as outlined in the book jacket, does not take responsibility for traveler health: use at your own risk.) ´
- JRo and JBird
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I guess now you know why rice is such a diet staple. Bananas are good too. I'd have to say that the TP info was TMI- although I can't deny have been in similar situations while camping.
Sounds like you're having a blast and all is well.
Love,
Auntie Anne
I forwarded your blog to Mike Rowe of "Dirty Jobs" and Bear Gryls of "Man versus Wild" Both were impressed by your survival skills.
Mike would like to hear more about this digging through the trash for used TP. He's not sure that he can do a full 20 minute segment or that this ritual even qualifies as a "job", however, he is considering a new project, "Dirty Hobbies", in which this act of savvy resourcefullness and sustainability would be featured.
Bear was glad to hear that you were "tracking dogs" as a way to elucidate the authentic Peruvian culture. He was not so impressed by your reliance on "packaged food" or TP, saying, "Drinking one's own urine is the surest way to stay hydrated in countries where the cleanliness of water is questionable and TP is simply overrated as a means of cleaning, when there is usually a plethora of cactus plants, poison ivy, and dead chicken carcuses in Ecuador and Peru."
So now you probably feel pretty silly wondering about the dead chicken in the taxi trunk, but, live and learn.
Thanks for sharing the adventures.
T
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