No Crowds reporter Gary pointed out to us recently that No
Crowds had reached a commercial fork in the road and like Yogi Berra, a legend
of baseball and malapropisms, we took it.
Yes, the post from and about onefinestay
supported a commercial operation but no, we did not then nor have we ever
received financial consideration for liking stuff. OK, that’s the disclaimer
taken care of. Maybe we’re just jealous having recently seen that Kim
Kardashian gets $10,000 per Tweet so someday we might want to reconsider – just
kidding.
But on to the cavemen and the honey. Thanks to our son
Leland who introduced us to the idea of eating like a Neanderthal, we are on
the Paleo diet. Long story short, if a caveman didn’t eat it, you shouldn’t
either. Everyone in our family has lost 20 unwanted pounds and feels great. If
you want to find out more about it, put Paleo into Google. All I can tell you
it that it works.
So when I bumped in to my friend Nina who told me about this
great honey company, I listened because: 1) honey is one of the few sweet
things on the Paleo diet and 2) because there was an interesting travel story
attached to the honey and the story goes like this.
Ogilvy’s Honey is on a mission to
make us fall in love with fine honey from all kinds of cool and interesting
places such as the Himalayan highlands and Zambezi plains. All of Ogilvy’s
honeys are unblended - either monofloral (the bees feed off only one plant or
tree) or polyfloral (the bees feed of a variety of plants and trees local to
their flying range) which, according to Ogilvy’s, makes for better honey. Having tried the stuff – and liked it –
the unblended story makes good sense to us. But what we really enjoyed about Ogilvy’s was the global
terroir, the romantic notion that a tiny piece of the Balkans, or the Himalayas
or the Zambia was in our morning cuppa and we think that folks who like great
travel experiences with no crowds would enjoy it too. Take that Kim Kardashian!