Garry Foster
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Frank hook up that travel trailer and use the AC on real hot days and nights. If you have a national park with hookups you can stay for half price at your and my age.
Water doesn't replace electrolytes lost through perspiration, nor will salt as was once used. Yes, Gatorade gets a lot of advertising at sporting events but it's there because it works.
Water doesn't replace electrolytes lost through perspiration, nor will salt as was once used. Yes, Gatorade gets a lot of advertising at sporting events but it's there because it works.
For your amusement: 8 degrees C here at 6 am this morning. No mosquitos.
...Ahhhh good old salt tablets mentioned.....that brought back a memory or two of my army days. In basic training we were lined up each morning and given a "smartie" (our joke for salt tablet). Instructor handed them out one by one. You had to crunch it in your mouth and show him before he moved on to the next guy.
Then you saw it come out in your uniform and even our leather boots. Boy they worked us hard.
Ditto. I worked at Ft. Irwin (So. California). I remember those salt dispensers and everyone grabbing one as they exited the building. I also operated the old fashioned phone lines while there (Laugh In, Ernestine, one ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy...OK, I'm old)
Sharon,
When were you in Ft Irwin, my step son and a nephew was there in the early '90's.... my step son was infantry and trained some of the guys that went to Desert Storm... he was disappointed he didn't get to go..... my nephew was in the motor pool and worked as a mechanic...he was there in '92 when I passed through with my mother on the way to California to my daughter's wedding.
I was there 72-74 (told you I was old ). It had just gone from Federal to State at the time. I was part of the caretaker group that kept it ready in the winter when the National Guard troops would come down periodically for weekend training, then full time in the summer for their two weeks each.
One of the most exciting experiences was watching the arrival of the Canadian Air Borne Regiment. Nothing (neither people nor very large equipment) arrived unless it jumped or was pushed out of a plane. Was a very exciting sight to see all the parachutes. Wish we had cell cameras back then.
Probably not as old as you think... I've only been in Ft Irwin once to visit my nephew (didn't know my stepson then) and that is in '92.... used to go through Barstow regularly though... even though I worked for an airlines in SFran,from '67 to '76, I preferred to drive home to Texas and Oklahoma to see the folks... back then I drove a Corvette, so was much more fun to drive than to fly.
If you were driving a corvette I am sure you were doing your share of flying!!!!!