Originally Posted by
zandoval
Too hot and no water... Never been there on a bicycle. I keep an eye out for water sources constantly. Front yards, ranch houses, muddy creeks, sprinklers, even stopping on the high way and waving my empty water bottle at the passing cars can git ya Water! Now shade, that's another matter cause believe it or not there are places where there is not any.
In the 70s there once was a couple of US Army Medics escorting a Stick of Canadians on a MEDCAP on the high plains of Ethiopia. They ran out of water. Luckily the medics were from Texas and Arizona. We called in our position and stacked rocks for shade. It was a long... Long 24 hours... Yep... I keep an eye out for water all the time...
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Nice. Ever try the solar still thing?
I once raced from the East Coast to Bermuda on a ****** old boat with a leaky water line that the cheap slob of an owner didn't know about. We lost most of our supply into the bilge before we noticed and had to ration for a few days. As it turned out, the tank was so dirty that the water we managed to save was brown and nasty and my main challenge as medical officer was making sure the crew actually drank their rations. The jug of distilled water for the flooded-cell batteries went early. We were fine in the end, but it was disconcerting.