Mike Hudack is a tumblelog.

As you can imagine, the kindly effect he hoped to have did not come through. No, sir; actually, we can’t find time to sleep, we thought. That’s what we’re telling you. We don’t have free time, and we don’t have drivers: We hike everywhere, with 40 pounds of gear on our backs. When you spill a little bit of coffee on your map, sir, and mistake it for a hill, that usually means an extra 20 kilometers of hiking for us. Long after the general drove off, we remained astonished that he was so cut off from the experience of the troops. Did he actually think we were exhausted because it never occurred to us to sleep in the back of our chauffeured cars?