Good morning my friend Hoov: You posted -->there were so many flies last time that Jim wouldn't eat anything that a fly could land on,

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Geeze is he finiky ! Obviously a spoiled Canadian. Just extra protein if you gobble one., sides they tickle. As for contamination hmm, you handle fly poop on many of the tools, documents, your body, etc already. However remembering where they were raised ----------- hmm but a diet of peanuts ? prob 10 times worse.

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You also posted -> there's a guy with a freezer full of beer

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So now I know the actual reason for Jim being there.

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Also -->You can't drink the water.

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At the risk of ----- After ridng a mule in a deep barranca for hours, with the temp around 44c and 80% humidity, no breeze, with your face covered with sweat flies so thick, that even waving a clump of grass does nothing, even the poor mule keeps shaking her head, flopping those long cute ears, you finaly round a turn and see an Isolated Indian's jacal.

You dismount under the veranda with the owner's cordial greeting of "my home is yours senor" . He then takes a very dirty glass, with an equally dirty hand, and scoops water from a jug with greenish scum on the surface, then hands it to you , what do you do?

"Down the hatch" my friends with no second thoughts"

I see that I am going to have to train Jim a bit.

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Also-->You brush your teeth with beer

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Jim's favorite flavor, what's wrong with that ?

I remember in Old Peking, just before the commies took it, I had to brush my teeth wth champaign from the Catholic mission, .50 cents US a magnum. it was cheaper than the very scarce water..so, that is just an excuse Hoov.

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and this -> Flush toilets are a novelty, and keeping them running is quite a challenge

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This from a gentleman that grew up in the 'old' Canadian bush camps? Heck what do you think the free roaming piggies are for?

Sigh , I guess the spirit of the old French/Canadian trapper has gone

Don Jose de La Mancha .