Welcome back

Thanks guys. Alright I know I am in fact welcoming myself back, but since no one else has I figured I should. So take the thanks and deal with it.

We had a blast these past few weeks and now I am ready to jump back in to the swing of things. As soon as I get a chance I will post some picture of both the trip to Costa Rica as well as the trip to North Carolina.

There are a lot of interesting things going on in the outdoor and beer drinking world that I am looking forward to sharing with you, however the first is the story of those outdoor staples that we all know and love Nalgenes!! Yeah! Hooray for Nalgenes! You see I have a theory about Nalgenes and I have determined that each person is destined only to have a predetermined number of Nalgenes and should that person acquire more that they should the additional bottles subsequently disappear.

For instance I now realize that I am destined only to have five Nalgenes. For years I have had these bottles and it seems that as I acquire more I always seem to lose them and I always am left with five. So five is my predetermined Nalgene number. The funny thing about that is the Nalgene seems to have a mind of its own, when purchased the bottles are glossy and pristen, gleaming in perfection. This soon goes by the wayside as we tend to make them ours with stickers and personality. The stickers, you see are our way of marking our territory, much in the same way a dog pisses on their favorite tree. But the true beauty of the Nalgene is that they are social butterflies, they are left in friends vehicles after a hike or often borrowed, lent or acquired (stolen).

Which is where I come back to the predetermined number of Nalgenes. You see once a Nalgene comes to you (and yes they do just appear) you now must piss on it (with stickers not urine). First you have to remove any stickers you dislike and then place your own all over it. And voila you now have a new Nalgene!!!

Here is my newest.

Thank you Juicebox!