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our local quartz is white and too "crumbly" to use and i haven't found anything like the type of tinder he uses locally, but now i've something else to try :)

the locals use plastic bags, but they (usually) don't last very long and for some reason (don't ask me why) staff at our local national park insists on dipping their snouts into visitor's luggage as plastic bags are not allowed... animal bladders would probably go funky in no time, but Toddy's...

as already mentioned in several posts before: i'm located in a tropical rainforest (or rather what's left of it). lately it has been ways more rainy than average and our river has been up to over my nether regions for one week.... . keeping stuff dry during river crossings is important, but...

a mixture of bee's wax and oil (in Japan we used olive oil to treat cutting boards, but other types of oil may work, too...)

what's the "normal" purpose of that stuff?! buying online and getting anything shipped to central america is out of option due to the ridiculous shipping and import fees (+red tape), but maybe there's a local alternative...

usually i don't quote myself, but here some additions reg. bicycles: iirc the Swiss still use bicycles for military purposes and the Viet Minh and later the North Vietnamese proved their use against unwelcome visitors (fun fact: Ho Chi Minh was the top OSS agent in Vietnam during WW2)...

i wipe my machete with a small rag, afterwards a wipe with a small piece of cloth soaked in old engine oil (obviously not for food-related cutting tasks!; makes also an emergency fire starter) -- as already stated i'm in a rainforest. not tried myself, but i heard of coconut oil for food...

i've encountered more than enough sheeple who walked that slow you could have resoled their boots while they were walking....

on saturday i collected two trail cameras in an area where we recently lost two cameras to *****poachers (presumably because that particularly model of camera had a green LED come on at night when activated), on the way back i encountered 3snakes engaged in what i presume was a mating ritual...

iirc the "zombie survival guide" recommended a bicycle as the ideal vehicle; at least most zombies i've encountered were wwaayyss to slow to catch one :P

i never had any issues with creepy-crawlies and maintained a safe distance to croc-suspicious water -- the main issue were two-legged predators and they're only around civilization (and not out bush); the oldest surviving culture on the planet are the Aborigines

i've been told more than once i look like Gandalf/ Moses/ the local mountain god (in south korea) and once an old cuban guy who knew Fidel Castro and Che Guevara personally (according to his claim and i daresay he wasn't bovine excrementing me) told me i looked like Leonid Trotsky...

if i could go where i wanted i'd beat the roadrunner heading for the centre of the universe (commonly called "Australia"), but sadly that won't happen... i DEFINITELY NOT would want to go back to europe, but "thanks" to dual citizenship they couldn't kick me out...

the funds to start new somewhere else (sadly not happening anytime soon :-( )

facial hair...

please forgive my lack of knowledge, but what's their exact function?

getting out of costa pobre is my wish, although i doubt lack of funds will make it happen... (i quit my job as a tour guide just before christmas: despite being peak season i did not get ont tour in 2months (unlike all the other guides working for this company) and the supervisor's endless...

sorry for going somewhat off-topic, but how good is their quality?(currently i don't lack the funds but maybe one day in the future... iirc one of my workmates bought one when i worked in Japan 10years ago (for forestry work)...)

not "could" -- "how much" is the correct phrasing :P

somewhere i read that the flowers are edible, in some areas Native Americans used it for bows and the timber is rather rot-resistant, which means in the olden days it was used to make wooden "nails" for ships... (sorry for going off-topic)