Didn’t they try to fry a egg on a hot car in the heat of summer?
I recall seeing pictures of someone baking cookies in their car.
A car can be a very good oven for that.
Fun fact, we didn’t have cold running water in Kuwait – so instead, what we’d do is take our water bottles, put them inside a wool sock, soak the sock in hot water, then tie it to the side mirrors on our HMMWVs.
Ten minutes driving around looking like a weirdo, and you had cool water to drink. And dry socks.
How do you even do things outside if its that hot? Doesn’t that just kill you?
Fair thee well! I shake take this coffee, as I am immune to its effects due to consuming way too much of it drinks coffee, starts to shake see, I’m fine.
Lol, I’d rather go live back where my moms from in Kentucky. It’s so cheap there and it’s got SEASONS. Don’t need to be baked like a potato to live cheap lol.
You do what you have to, after you acclimate to it. There was basically zero humidity, so as long as you didn’t dehydrate and prevented sunburn, sweating was more than enough to keep you cool.
Just hearing the talk of Arizona makes me feel like melting into a puddle.
I’ve been to Oregon a number of times, beautiful state, also wouldn’t mind being there.
And lo, I had become like unto a spud;
Amidst a sea of sand in the state that’s a dud.
Temperatures rose, and life before my eyes flashed:
From the state I would flee, lest I become-… mashed.
For real though, funniest thing about leaving Arizona was doing it in the winter to California, and having to take my car to get the heater fixed first.
Lulz. Crossing the Rockies is like a sampling tour of crappy weather conditions that the world has to offer.
Afterthought edit:
If you’ve never crossed a mountain range in a car, please pay attention to the Danger: Falling Rocks signs. They’re there for a reason.
I saw a fox with pink glasses. I might adopt such a one if it is litter trained and can make a great latte.
That’s crazy. Just the thought of being so close to the big I and in the middle east physically is hard to wrap my mind around. I bet it’s like a crazy different world. Or maybe it’s just like Arizona+ lol.
I love it! Reminds me of the city in the sea by poe one of my favorite poems
lol
I’ve actually been in a small rockslide in Kentucky. I thought that was it for me. Plus they have tornados. Crazy that those are just normal lol.
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Litter trained? They are not cats.
Nah, not really. Iraq isn’t really all that different from other countries I’ve been on a basic level. There are always cultural differences, sure, but the biggest thing you notice being there is the lack of readily available electricity outside of large cities.
No electricity means no traffic signals. No traffic signals means, “I cross four lanes of traffic now! Good luck, everybody else!”
In terms of weather and whatnot, Iraq’s not really that different from Texas. It’s mostly dirt and rocks with fairly mild weather most of the year, with a couple of months of relative cold during winter.
Kuwait, though – that’s sandy desert, for the most part. That place gets very hot in summer, and can drop to the high 50’s after a day of being 130.
That may not sound all that bad, but to give you some context, when I was returning from my first deployment, that’s when we got stuck in Kuwait for eight weeks like I mentioned earlier (due to sandstorms). The heat was bad, but after about three or four weeks, you get used to it.
Well, my dumb self looked at the weather report for Texas on the day we went home and thought, “Eighty degrees? Well, screw carrying my field jacket, then.”
Got off the plane and it was 85 or so, and I felt like I was freezing. Human beings take a few weeks to do it, but we acclimate to crazy temperatures.
So how many stray Vulpera’s need homes?
That’s insane, but I guess that explains how people live there. That’s an incredible experience. I haven’t traveled much outside the U.S. so that’s like a pretty crazy adventure to me.
Well we have had about 5 of them in the thread, so we’ll just need to go get nets and get the rest ourselves
They need rabies vaccine and other shots. Also flea and tick meds.
Donny Kawano needs a home. He is totally a fox and not a rat!
I really wouldn’t recommend it. The whole getting shot at thing kind of sours the experience. My unit luckily returned home with only a few casualties and no deaths, but one of the cavalry units in the brigade didn’t fare as well. They had to be sent home after suffering 46% casualties, a lot of which were deaths.
Iraq in 2005 was a far less pleasant place to be than it was in 2009.
Donny, are you sure becoming a DK didn’t just cause some of your fur to come off so you look like a rat?
I’m glad you made it back, and am thankful for your service! We americans take our peaceful lives for granted thats for sure.
I’m guna hit the hay. It’s 1 o’clock here lol. Gnight friends 
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Have a good night! I know I will – four-day weekend, yooooooooo~