Update.
Just got home for the first time since October 14th. About five weeks on the road, stops to visit family in Georga, Texas, California, and some sight seeing in New Mexico at White Sands and Carlsbad Caverns. Sone hiking in the Cleveland National wilderness area in the Elsinore Mountains in California. Through it all, the only knives I had used, where the ones I left hone with, the Vic classic on my keyring, and the peanut in my pocket.
There were tons of food packages to open, all of the almost tooth and nail proof plastic. Then there was the food in those packages that needed to be sliced up and eaten in locations like the top of a mountain in the Blue Jay camp ground in California, a picnic on the beach at Malibu, some cheese and crackers in the shade of a dune at White Sands, salad sliced and diced at Aunt Jane's in Atlanta. Aunt Jane is a very dear old lady, but the knives in her kitchen were butter knife like in edge. Bell pepper, radish, Avocado, fresh dill, and tomato all fell prey to the peanut. The tomato's were a bit big, so instead of slicing in a convention way, they were sliced in a wedge pattern which was within the parameters of the 2 inch peanut blade.
Some rope needed to be cut in Texas. Old dirty, grimy rope. No problemo.
Two jugs of the Rain-x windshield washer fluid got used. Hey, I like a clean windshield, and I prefer the orange stuff. Makes running in the rain lots easier. But the foil seal had to cut out, and the classic did the deed without problem. The classic kept nails trimmed well for the month and some days on the road. The SD tip of the classic came in handy for replacing the batteries in grand daughter Briana's toys. Bree became a devout fan of the little classic, and went looking for things to do with the classic. She loved using the little scissors for the magnet school projects.
So far, from high mountain lakes like Lake Arrowhead at 5,000 feet in the San Bernadino mountains to the desert terrain of New Mexico, to the Texas brush country, the peanut and classic did all I needed.
So far, so good.
The minimum bulk of the peanut left room for other things that were very important for one being thousands of miles from home, like small flashlights, extra bandana. It was surprising how much you come to depend on a tiny flashlight like the Fenix E01 when you spend nights in strange places, and don't know the layout if you have to get up in the night. Or getting up at 5AM to get an early start on the road.
Carl, Grand High Muckba Of The Cult.
