Work Vortex

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Or no rest for the weary. Being on the road is great. Work cuts you some slack since you're far off and extra busy with big picture stuff. But once back home, it's the land of 1000 details waiting and all of them urgent/asap/need yesterday. It's taken 4 solid days to get 900 of them under control. But as I think about where I wish I was (on safari in Kenya) and where I just was (Riobamba, Ecuador) I found this photo.
And it made me wonder - how was it possible that a tent shower with hand pulled water buckets, in the middle of no-where, could give me a wonderful HOT shower and yet at a basic hotel in a city, hot water was almost non-existent?

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