Real de Tayopa Tropical Tramp
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Take your time and do a good job my friend.
IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN AMAZING COINCIDENCE. BUT, FOR YOU, IT WAS WITHIN THE REALM OF POSSIBILITIES.
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Don Jose, you are absolutely correct. Even in the most benign of environments, survival can be difficult, and will take up a lot of time. The more primitive the weapons and tools available, the more time it is likely to take an inordinate amount of time to feed oneself (and one’s family, if you have one) which explains why the .22s were so valuable. It often amazes me that anyone could survive at all in the deserts of the southwest (or any other deserts as for that matter). Even on a tropical island, life can be difficult. Although I have never actually had to try surviving for any great length of time on my own, I have done so for long enough to know that most (and I am being kind here) of those “reality” shows are just a bunch of hokey, which is why I spend very little time on them. Actually, I don’t spend much time on TV at all, I prefer to read a good book (hint, hint).The other night I was watchig one of these reality shows, the ones that show our hero cast way in a remote area. He always comes up with something to eat or to help wth his survival.
It got me to thinking, I imagine that many followers imagined themselvs in his place and considered themselves in a 'SHTF' situation as existing that way.
Unfortunately that can exist for only a short while, when one becomes a hunter / gatherer. The game quickly is dissipated or eaten, leaves the country, or you have gathered most of the edible materiel in the region and you have to move on.
This idylic life soon becomes a struggle to just exist.
When my partner and I decided that we would live off of the land basically while looking for Mayan ruins in the Yucatan / Quintana Roo jungles of the Yuctan, we started out with perhaps 3 -4 hrs to collect enough to eat, then gradually it was exteded until it was taking most of the daylight hours leaving little time for exploring.
When I say basically, we carried rice, tea, spices, plus a little treat called la abuela, which consisted of a form of sweets that contained mostly sugar in the crude form. We pampered ourself. The rest we obtaind with our machetes and .22 pistols.
This mde me reasses the lives of our native Americans, and quickly came to an understanding of why they were at war with each other, it was simply a war of survival and they needed vast lands in which to move around in just to eat. They often starved during the winters.
Course there was the usual need for captive females to increase the tribal male stock, but in general the land limited the ability to increase.
So I came to the conclusion that lifewasnt a bed of roses for them, but a life of few surpluses or comforts. That the reality shows wern't really reality shows after all.
We each carried 500 rnds of .22 super X hollwow point ammunition for trading purposes, .22's were worth their weight in Gold in the remote areas, money meant nothing.
J. A. A.
We have formed a co. and it is out of my hands now. We are putting a team on the ground. You must remember that it is at the end of any trails and of neccessity it will be slow. I am being kept as an advisor etc, since I can't really be up there. So, for all purposes I am just like you. Ths Tayopa has taught me Patience, if nothing more.