Thursday, July 16, 2009

Life lives itself

The objective is to stay a period as long as possible at the location of El Triple.
There are several reasons for this strategy.

One is that the road to reach El Triple is very, very bad.
To get here, a car or truck is punished for almost two hours by a road that has a washboard with ridges so deep you can clean an elephant’s pant there.
Hence, one would prefer to use that road as little as possible.

Another reason to stay at El Triple as long as possible is that the effects of being at this magical place reach deeper then.
With the passing of time, the level of consciousness moves up higher.
Health improves dramatically.
Happiness and harmony intensify.
And everything simplifies: life lives itself.

Last reason is that a visit to town, La Paz being the nearest, is never a real joy.
This time of year it is steaming hot in La Paz.
At night also.
And coming from the heaven called El Triple, La Paz is a Sodom and Gomorra where easily a simplified virgin rapes herself.

But unavoidably, supplies in the Fuso Szulc at El Triple do run out and one is forced to go to La Paz.

Hence, the game to play is to live as simple as possible by consuming as little as is acceptable to stretch the period as long as it can.

Water.
The Fuso Szulc is equipped with a large water tank holding approximately 60 gallons (230 litres).
This is not drinking water though.
It is water used to wash the dishes, to brush the teeth, to wash the hands and the vegetables.
Due to these limited purposes, the water in the two tanks of the Fuso Szulc last a very long time.
About a month.
Drinking water comes from large water bottles containing each 19 litres (5 gallons).
There are four of these bottles in the Fuso Szulc that are filled at a drinking water shop in La Paz for about 10 Mexican Pesos (€ 0,52 / $ 0,74) per bottle.
One bottle supplies drinking water for approximately 6 days.


Food.

Breakfast is always a bowl of 5 spoons of 100 % natural whole grain oats with two spoons of Nestlé Svelty 0% fat milk powder and one banana or apple.
To this a glass of orange juice and two cups of orange pekoe tea.
It is easy to have enough supplies for breakfast.
They can be kept without refrigeration.
Except for the bananas.

Lunch is always three slices of toasted bread.
A product of Bimbo called Pan Tostado, they have grilled double fibre whole-wheat bread.
Easy to bring to El Triple enough packages of this toasted bread.
On those slices of toasted bread, always two are with cheese and honey mustard and one with raspberry marmalade.
Cheese and margarine can be kept in the fridge for weeks.
As long as the cheese is factory made and sealed in plastic.

Dinner is always whole grain brown rice, some vegetables and tofu.
Rice comes in boxes and is easy to keep.
Tofu comes in sealed containers and can be kept in a good fridge for months.
Vegetables have to be chosen with wisdom.
Some cannot be kept for a long time, even in a fridge.
But some can, like carrots, peppers and celery.

Fruits are consumed during the day and in the first week this can be melons and papayas.
But later it becomes mainly apples.
And when lucky mangoes are found that are stone hard in the shop and will be edible after two weeks.

With this ascetic discipline, about 25 days can be spend at El Triple non-stop.
Then levels of supplies have reached 0.
Forcing to wash the pants of the elephant again and endanger the virginity.



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