Me, over six years ago, in the Bike and Build on-line journal:

I feel bad mentioning food, because every journal does, but I fell like I should say something to the parents. People, your sons and daughters who left your home with such manners have become savages. There is NO other way to put it. You’ve read about peanut butter no doubt, we eat a lot of it. What goes unmentioned is the fact that that peanut butter coats the coolers as it is slopped around. Indeed, every rider, in a few short weeks has become as savage as a Viking. Laura (aka Beansy), Daniel (aka double-D), Stephanie (aka Boss), Johanna (aka Jo-burg) and everyone else is a vicious food-dropping, road-squatting, no-hand-washing savage. Don’t even get me started on Craig (aka Tubby aka King of Savages)

Mentioned eating warm cheese off the ground yesterday and made me remember just how far we strayed from any semblance of manners in such a short time on that trip. Good times. The quoted entry was written, of course, before a number of us got violently ill. That tightened up the hygiene a bit.