Blistered Spit. Sounds kinda gross. How does that even happen, spit blistering? It doesn't sound natural, that's for sure. What kind of shape or situation do you have to be in before such a thing happens?
Well, it goes like this:
Two Texas Tech University (that's right, Texas Tech; it's in Lubbock, home to Buddy Holly, which makes it the home of Rock n' Roll) professors take 15 students from various backgrounds to the middle of the northeastern Chihuahuan desert for a five-day bikepacking expedition and call it a class. It was a good class, though, away from the ivory tower of academia and one driven right into the dusty, heat-swept gravel roads and singletrack in Big Bend Ranch State Park. It was dubbed a hands-on course, steeped in the real world. But, not the real world referred to by thousands of professionals and professors, parents and teachers the world over. This one was just a bit different.
It's a good thing the local PBS affiliate and two of its student interns (Juan Gil and Tyson Earl; both students in the afore mentioned class) were able to tell the story on air: