RADAR LOVE

The restroom situation isn’t horrible, but it’s not great.  On our “Pad” (our living facilities) there are two seperate trailers, one for the showers and one for the latrines.  All of the water is “non-potable” which means you can’t drink it or even brush your teeth with it.  Everywhere you go there are bottles of water for these purposes.

The problem with the latrines is that it gets very dark out here at night and the walk to the chews from my CHU is about 150 yards past some very scary bunkers.  I have not yet slept through the night without having to get up and put my shoes on and coat on and run through very rough gravel to the bathroom.  I think I might be drinking too much liquids.

The showers aren’t bad.  The water pressure is good, but the biggest problem is about once a minute or more you get a blast of scalding hot water.  We’ve started to pick up on the signals (the water heaters click) in order to avoid it, but I still manage to get scalded at least once a shower.

The most interesting restroom facilities are the port-a-potties out at our site.  The have lights and radios in them, but other than that they look (and smell) like regular old pot-a-potties.  Despite the fact that they are musical, I try to avoid them whenever possible.