Throughout our current motorbike trip, mosquitoes have greeted us at various campgrounds in multiple states.
My traveling companions react via chemical warfare. Myself, I just shrug and, if necessary later, scratch.
I don’t do bug spray. Simply hate the feel of it. I once got 93 mosquito bites while covering a football game in sodden Alturas, California. Big deal.
Picked up 108 on a two-day backpacking trip near the Three Sisters. So what? I would way rather have a bit of welt action going on than turn myself into a walking Superfund site (I know I just recently used that term, but I like it).
Likewise, I don’t do sunscreen. I don’t make a point to seek out the sun either, but when I am in it, I don’t worry about it. And while my arms burned a little on this trip, I can live with that better than those greasy protection products. We don’t need to chemically repel the entire world around us, I don’t think.
2 comments
Dave says:
Jul 22, 2011
Dito here Steve. Although depending on what part of this country I’m working in now days and with the Nile Virus issue , sometimes I look at my other options.The worst was in 69 on the Pacitic Crest Trail for 11 days when some Forest Service Trail crew took pity on us and gave us some “GI jungle juice” You could get it at Andy and Bax when it was a true Army surplus store. Most of the time they don’t seem to bother me while the person sitting next to me is getting eaten alive.They were bad up on the trail head to Mt. Whitney last week I fetl sorry for the tent campers down in the canyons with no breeze.Made me enjoy the hotel room all the more.
Enjoy the rest of your Ride !
Steve Lundeberg says:
Jul 22, 2011
Andy and Bax was one of my favorite stores as a kid. Thanks Dave.