Brown Motion

Make that four down days.  As in food poisoning related downers.  As the old joke says that Diarrhea is hereditary since it runs in the jeans - I scored more runs than a good front line batsman would in cricket.  So not only did this event cause a major outage in my availability it did open up the possibility of perhaps getting by with much less food.  Intake that is. So what is the upside you ask?  I ate what I ate and yet lost 10 pounds.  In four days.  Just not eating.  Well I did literally have an apple a day.  So three apples later I am hearty on my way to become hale.  Food tasted much better once I bit into a piece of Doritos chip and swallowed some Sprite. Too much consumption perhaps numbed my taste buds is all.  A break gave it a chance to recharge.  Now more than ever would be a good time to ensure that the girth does not become excess baggage as I contemplate the long hikes in the Andes only weeks away. Bein...