Camping and the Outdoors

I’m off back to South Africa for a brief Christmas holiday.
I’ll be traveling by jet airliner, of course. Few would argue that a jet plane is better than a pair of legs.
Strangely enough, the good old-fashioned pair of legs is a good measure of the efficiency of every mode of transport. Before thinking about […]

Blood glucose is like an albatross around the necks of most of us.
I just read in Discover Magazine about a vaccine that left rats with a reduced body fat percentage and a reduced body weight. A potential cure for obesity?
I would like to posit that A) obesity is a result of a way of life. […]

The cold this morning was great. In South Africa, we generally don’t have central heating in our houses, and winters are spent quite chilly-ly (wow - great word…) with cold feet and houses.
Here in the US, my very modest flat has thermostatically-controlled central heating, so waking this morning, I noticed a slightly chillier chill than […]

I have a memory of seeing walking in movies: John Rambo walking into a town somewhere in the USA, carrying a bedroll and a polystyrene cup. He is wandering. Seeing someone walking in a movie seemed strange for me when I watched it, especially a movie about a completely lethal man, a man who, in […]