About
This trip is about breaking away, shaking things up, stepping away from the table when we are up and not waiting for some big payoff. We worked hard now it is time to take what we have and do something special.
Us: (Dave's Reflections)
Heather is on it, which happens to be all that Dave and Zy are not on. Fortunately she wakes up early all the time and gets stuff done. Middle of the night is time for arranging the next hotel or car rental, or even plans for after our return. Laundry would not get done without Heather. Zy and Dave would be forced to hand washing and probably wearing wet clothes often. She seems to have a special sense of knowing when clothes or people are dirty, a sense that the others not the team do not have. Heather is a coffee addict. Her favorite part about 180 is the small re-useable coffee filter Dave found at work. She seeks out hot water every day and pours it over the beloved roasted crushed bean. Heather is also responsible, as the team captain, with all grocery shopping. The males are incapable. They think that groceries are for driving carts around like maniacs at a go-kart track. Heather does not have their belief that "we don't need that stuff", as she believes the opposite: we need snacks for some country in the future that no one else can imagine going to. The "kitchen" or snack bag is her domain as it pisses Dave off to enter and look for snacks, meanwhile Zylus has never seen the inside of "the Kitchen" bag. He must think it to be a magic hat out from which comes all good things to eat, except ice cream
Dave contributes by looking at maps and trying to find out what should be not missed. He also contributes by sleeping a lot and snuggling his boy in the morning, thereby making everyone's experience just a little better. Dave fortunately for everyone can power nap and proves it very often. By doing so, he repeatedly chips away at his grouchiness, which is an action that benefits everyone including the walls that he often bestows with angry fowl language rarely understood in such foreign lands. He has taken to feeling comfortable with outbursts in public places as they only seem to keep away the touts. Dave will sometimes get off his ass for coffee, but most usually he just reaches to the nearest flat surface each morning where his coffee awaits, thank Allah, and Heather. When life looks its most bleak, and Heather thinks it is impossible to get boiling water, Dave's inside starts to panic enough to get up and be sure boiling water can be found and he is even willing to walk for it, and even buy it. He even learned that you can store it overnight in a thermos and still make coffee in the morning. This is important information, because coffee is critical to this trip. Dave understands the coffee thing, but does not understand the yoga thing. Which god is the true god and why was coffee made so logical and yoga not? Yet he married a girl that thinks both are necessary. Dave sees it so clearly, that coffee can make you feel well enough but the Heather still thinks BOTH are needed.
Zylus has developed a keen skill of having his parents ask for everything 5 times. He also seems to only be able to do 2 things at once: one of those things is always breathing, as he does that well. But if he then starts to eat, read, watch, play (meaning ipad), then his brain is at capacity and outside influences such as parents, fire, explosions, etc., remain inaudible or not detectable. Zylus would be naked and starving without this coffee that his parents make daily. They cannot start their day without it. Zylus knows what a drug is and that coffee is one, but sadly he is being told, as a way of educating, that ice cream is a drug, but in fact it is not. While the coffee would be put into a pill form by the parents within a week if necessity arose, they could never make ice cream into a pill, nor would Zylus ACTUALLY become addicted. It is all in his mind, and he is proud of his need. He shamelessly will ask for another ice cream as he finishes the current one. He has a record of 4 ice creams in one day. He does give tastes to his dad, but it is clear this is with much unhappiness. Zylus fortunately often is the mediator on the team. He can often see when the other mates are trying too hard to make be sure everyone eats and sleeps and enjoys the trip. Whenever the others talk about planning more than talking about ice cream, Zy is there to bring it back into perspective: who cares what plane or train or alarm clock time is needed if it does not lead to a Magnum Classic? Does the negotiation directly yield ice cream? NO? Then stop talking about it either so loudly or animatedly.
Yoga: This is the fourth character on the team. This bitch rears her ugly head twice a day: once when the team captain wakes up and Heather sets her sights on scheduling yoga, and second right after Yoga, when discussions begin about the next yoga session. Yoga gets done in all weather and all places. It has been done amongst hippos and crocs on prickly grass laden with poop. An olive orchard is a fine place. Sometimes it is done in a place and time that leaves Zylus to his own self defense and more than once the father has worried his son's life may be in danger but the posture must complete. Practitioners must be willing to be shameless and not care what ANYONE OR ANY CULTURE thinks of this behavior. Several times locals joined in for a posture or 2, but always see the silliness so much sooner than Dave and Heather.
Heather is on it, which happens to be all that Dave and Zy are not on. Fortunately she wakes up early all the time and gets stuff done. Middle of the night is time for arranging the next hotel or car rental, or even plans for after our return. Laundry would not get done without Heather. Zy and Dave would be forced to hand washing and probably wearing wet clothes often. She seems to have a special sense of knowing when clothes or people are dirty, a sense that the others not the team do not have. Heather is a coffee addict. Her favorite part about 180 is the small re-useable coffee filter Dave found at work. She seeks out hot water every day and pours it over the beloved roasted crushed bean. Heather is also responsible, as the team captain, with all grocery shopping. The males are incapable. They think that groceries are for driving carts around like maniacs at a go-kart track. Heather does not have their belief that "we don't need that stuff", as she believes the opposite: we need snacks for some country in the future that no one else can imagine going to. The "kitchen" or snack bag is her domain as it pisses Dave off to enter and look for snacks, meanwhile Zylus has never seen the inside of "the Kitchen" bag. He must think it to be a magic hat out from which comes all good things to eat, except ice cream
Dave contributes by looking at maps and trying to find out what should be not missed. He also contributes by sleeping a lot and snuggling his boy in the morning, thereby making everyone's experience just a little better. Dave fortunately for everyone can power nap and proves it very often. By doing so, he repeatedly chips away at his grouchiness, which is an action that benefits everyone including the walls that he often bestows with angry fowl language rarely understood in such foreign lands. He has taken to feeling comfortable with outbursts in public places as they only seem to keep away the touts. Dave will sometimes get off his ass for coffee, but most usually he just reaches to the nearest flat surface each morning where his coffee awaits, thank Allah, and Heather. When life looks its most bleak, and Heather thinks it is impossible to get boiling water, Dave's inside starts to panic enough to get up and be sure boiling water can be found and he is even willing to walk for it, and even buy it. He even learned that you can store it overnight in a thermos and still make coffee in the morning. This is important information, because coffee is critical to this trip. Dave understands the coffee thing, but does not understand the yoga thing. Which god is the true god and why was coffee made so logical and yoga not? Yet he married a girl that thinks both are necessary. Dave sees it so clearly, that coffee can make you feel well enough but the Heather still thinks BOTH are needed.
Zylus has developed a keen skill of having his parents ask for everything 5 times. He also seems to only be able to do 2 things at once: one of those things is always breathing, as he does that well. But if he then starts to eat, read, watch, play (meaning ipad), then his brain is at capacity and outside influences such as parents, fire, explosions, etc., remain inaudible or not detectable. Zylus would be naked and starving without this coffee that his parents make daily. They cannot start their day without it. Zylus knows what a drug is and that coffee is one, but sadly he is being told, as a way of educating, that ice cream is a drug, but in fact it is not. While the coffee would be put into a pill form by the parents within a week if necessity arose, they could never make ice cream into a pill, nor would Zylus ACTUALLY become addicted. It is all in his mind, and he is proud of his need. He shamelessly will ask for another ice cream as he finishes the current one. He has a record of 4 ice creams in one day. He does give tastes to his dad, but it is clear this is with much unhappiness. Zylus fortunately often is the mediator on the team. He can often see when the other mates are trying too hard to make be sure everyone eats and sleeps and enjoys the trip. Whenever the others talk about planning more than talking about ice cream, Zy is there to bring it back into perspective: who cares what plane or train or alarm clock time is needed if it does not lead to a Magnum Classic? Does the negotiation directly yield ice cream? NO? Then stop talking about it either so loudly or animatedly.
Yoga: This is the fourth character on the team. This bitch rears her ugly head twice a day: once when the team captain wakes up and Heather sets her sights on scheduling yoga, and second right after Yoga, when discussions begin about the next yoga session. Yoga gets done in all weather and all places. It has been done amongst hippos and crocs on prickly grass laden with poop. An olive orchard is a fine place. Sometimes it is done in a place and time that leaves Zylus to his own self defense and more than once the father has worried his son's life may be in danger but the posture must complete. Practitioners must be willing to be shameless and not care what ANYONE OR ANY CULTURE thinks of this behavior. Several times locals joined in for a posture or 2, but always see the silliness so much sooner than Dave and Heather.