but OH NO, we cannot carry raw meat around for hours in our backpacks - even with a frozen bottle of water included.
I'm glad he decided against it, and I also like how you handled it, questions that are actual roadblocks to success, not your 'opinion' about it. I'm going to remember that!!
At least he was with you - my mom is now living by herself, so I don't always know she is 0.3 seconds away from purchasing SIX louvered blinds for her bay window...at $1,500 EACH because she thought someone could see her sitting at her kitchen table one morning and is now obsessed with privacy. on her dead-end street that no one actually drives down.
aging parents are so hard!