Tim-Tam Suck

I first learned of the Tim-Tam, and the Tim-Tam Suck, from Aussie Steve, the intern at NAU Outdoors from a year or so ago. The Tim-Tam you see is a chocolate cookie wafer thingy, something the Brits and Aussies might call a biscuit. Which really confuses them when they visit the U.S. and find biscuits and gravy on menus. But we would call it a cookie. So the Tim-Tam suck works when you bite the tip off either end of the wafer-cookie and dip it into your hot cocoa and suck the hot chocolate through the chocolate wafer, providing a moment of extra rich coco bliss before the whole thing melts into coco sludge. Which is good too.

Had my first day of work at the new job last week, after a 4 day backpacking trip in the canyon country. Then after a day of work went on an overnight hike to Fossil Springs. This week I'll probably work more than one day. Hard to get things done otherwise, still, I think it best to ease into this sort of thing, like a hot tub, or conversation with strange drivers while hitchhiking.

Hard to focus too much on work these days; I have a new adventuring buddy that likes exploring new places at least as much as I do. And she is possibly even more hard core than I am.