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by tibbon 3920 days ago
Summer 2014 I traveled the US via motorcycle, camping for the majority of the nights. "Real food" takes time. Refrigeration, cooking, cleaning, time, not crushing it in transit... I also don't eat meat (and was vegan that entire summer), which makes finding decent food in many places (if you're willing to eat out) really hard.

I unfortunately didn't get my original Soylent 1.1 in time for the trip, but how I wish I'd had it.

I don't use Soylent on a daily basis, but I always take it camping or on extended trips. I'd rather have a decently balanced food source (nothing is perfect) then eat greasy fast-food or just go hungry so I can make an extra 100 miles of travel before sunset.
1 comments
dlisboa 3920 days ago
> "Real food" takes time.

And what's the problem with that? Surely you didn't travel via motorcycle complaining that motorcycles are "too slow" for the trip. It was an integral part of your traveling experience and without it it would've been completely different.

Eating is a normal part of life. Any inconvenience in it is exactly part of a human experience, much like what you wanted with the trip. If your bike broke down for that extra 100 miles or if it was too cold in camping it wasn't "an issue", it was just life. You could have solved those two issues by traveling by plane and staying in hotels, but that's exactly the kind of convenience that you wanted to avoid.

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danneu 3920 days ago
Not everyone wants an "experience" every time they need to feed their stomach a morsel of food.

People are pretty capable of deciding that for themselves. No need to try to convince anyone what kind of appetite they should have for ceremony and the, deep voice, "human experience."

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Karunamon 3920 days ago
And what's the problem with that?

Because that's often time I'd rather spend doing other things.

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tibbon 3920 days ago
Essentially there was next to no way for me to actually have food I wanted, keep it safely, cook it properly, etc. Sometimes I wanted to make it to a specific destination the next day. Fast food not being an option, setting up a small kitchen setup 3x a day really would put a damper on things.
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PhasmaFelis 3920 days ago
Do you realize that you're basically saying "stop enjoying yourself, you're not doing it properly"?
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