Thinking about how they did it in the old days is how I ended up getting the burros. I guess I went a few steps past the wool blanket thing huh?

To be fair, I still haven't taken them out on a backpacking trip, but they are carrying my load and then some on day hikes and they're making great fertilizer all the rest of the time. But back to the point, the old timers didn't carry all that much. Pack animals carried the load.

Cooking perfect bacon... I think just that alone makes having a microwave worth it. I could live with out one, but I don't. I like having it. Sometimes I want food really super-duper fast.

In the last year we've switched almost entirely to cooking with cast iron instead of stainless pans. After getting the hang of it we all like it better than even teflon for non-stick cooking. We had to re-season all the old pans our parents and grandparents had left us because we ignored them for so long but that was part of the fun of learning to use them.

Them old timers knew some stuff.

Bill