Leave it to the Chinese. Gotta love it. These days everything appears to have been made in China. Americans won’t pay more for American made ‘It’s cheaper and we get what we pay for. The Chinese have mastered cheap labor and cheap products. You can’t find anything that isn’t made there. Go to any department store shoe store. You can’t find a reasonable pair of shoes made anywhere but China. I’ve tried and given up. I now resign myself to shoes that cost at least $100 to avoid the garbage that hurts my feet for less. Well it’s come home and was disguised as a task lamp. We went to a lighting specialty store and purchased a rather modern task lamp for our bathroom which we have remodeled. No way to tell on the plain white box that my lamp was made in China. It looked great and appeared to have been well made. Thank god JT is a jack of all trades and can install just about anything without help or instructions because we quickly discovered our lamp was made in China. Thank god they didn’t skimp on the product itself. They just skimped on the translation of the instructions. See below. Gotta love it.
Sunday, January 30, 2011
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
On To Bigger Things
I have allotted double the number of days to do the JMT; a month should cover it very well. Now I’ve got to get my boss to get as excited as I am and part with me for a month. My plan is to hike a day or two and rest 24 hours, hike a day or two and rest 24 hours. This will give me plenty of recovery time and a few spare days in case I have a bad spell. Of course this means carrying more but that really is no big deal. I’ve cut my essentials down to 15 pounds and the rest is food. The last time I did Mt. Whitney as a 3 days trip my pack was 25 pounds and I came back with at least two full days extra food/snacks and fuel. Better to have more than not enough. I could have shaved some weight off some items I never used. I’ve gotten better at predicting what I really need and have cut things back considerably. I have also become obsessed with weighing everything and trying to find a better item that’s lighter. If it comes down to cutting my toothbrush in half I will to save weight. That being said, I’m looking forward to taking the extra time to just kick back and enjoy the views, the people and the experience as a whole.
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