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thanks for enlightening me :-) my local substitute for a kuksa is a coconut shell and if our river ever freezes we're having a new ice age... (as i'm still in costa rica)

i've short hair (+a full beard), but wear headbands as they keep the sweat of my face (especially in our obscene tropical humidity) -- if i'd gotten one cent every time someone feels obliged to make a "rambo" joke i'd be rich enough to leave central america... to keep in line with the subject...

forgive me my lack of knowledge, but what's a "kupilka set" ?! any more infos about the fishing rod, please -- is it meant for ice fishing?!

a.k.a. "the 300-pound alcoholic in the red suit" (to quote my great hero Al Bundy :P )

me neither... there's a long list of famous people through history who had beards, i know at least of three named for their facial hair (=Friedrich I / Barbarossa, Sven Forkbeard, Edward Teach / Blackbeard)

i lost the lid of my "zebra" billy about 7years ago in a flood (and use a cheap stainless steel plate as replacement since then -- works, but not perfect...): i've a piece of thin stainless steel, so i'll have a go on making a better lid following your instructions soon :-)

no ember, yet (my guess is humidity and wrong wood -- i'm drying a new set of cacao) but no more blisters :-)

i shall give this one a try -- i guess any type of cord will do...

sorry for my late reply as our internet is in "mañana" mode lately.... my drills are about as long as my arm (=from armpit to tip of my hands) when i start; i already spit on my hands to reduce blisters.... .part of the problem might be our obscene tropical humidity....

bow drill fire starting is absolutely no deal for me, but sadly i'm struggling with the hand drill (i DID have success with hibiscus tiliaceus in northern Australia and limited success with cacao over here) . my main problem is that my hands get too hot no matter what i try and i end up with...

well... i was in Japan but sadly had to move on as immigration didn't renew my work visa :-( .... how i ended up in costa rica afterwards is a long story but it was back then the only option available....

maybe not exactly prehistoric, but i've seen plenty of those in Gyeongju (korean peninsula), which was once the capital of the Silla kingdom. (i don't speak korean apart from a few words, but once watched a documentary about similarities between the Silla culture and the Scythians, who also used...

thanks for the offer, but shipping and import to Costa Rica would probably cost more than opening a wheelbarrow factory... :-(

sorry for going off-topic, but where's that?! to get back on subject: wheelbarrows are an important farm tool here, too, but the quality is (typical) central american substandard... :-(

"dueling banjos" in "deliverance"

didn't know there were two versions: i meant the 1980 one...

some more great movies: ●"they live" with Roddy Piper ("i'm here to kick a** and chew bubblegum -- but i'm all out of bubblegum) maybe sci-fi in the eighties but sadly more realistic these days ●"das boot" (fun fact: the same submarine was used in "raiders of the lost ark") ●"Quigley Down Under"...

to my everlasting shame i forgot Malcolm Douglas' documentary series (which had a significant impact on my life) i haven't owned TV in 20years and haven't watched TV or a DVD for ages, but here's some other great movies: ●Louis de Funes' "gendarm of st. tropez" series ●"chato's land", "red...

any Bud Spencer/ Terence Hill movie and the documentary series about Chicago's greatest citizen (hint: four touchdowns in one game playing for "polk high" in 1966... but the he got "Married... With Children" :P )

does occasionally turning around to see if someone follows me count?! (=a result of the hostilities of others towards me because of my different interests when growing up) i've also had enough folks commenting on the fact i eat rather fast -- a result of my (not voluntary!) time in uniform...