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Please e-mail us your comments, compliments and
stories about the Armored Humidor and we'll publish them on this
page for other cigar smokers to read about...everyone loves a good
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Hi!
I am not sure if you find it a good story or not, however I do think
it's a hell of experience that I had there in the desert, and the
Armored Humidor was there with me.
It was during Christmas vacation that we've decided to visit the
little Oasis at the eastern desert of Egypt, called SIWA, "An
Oasis in Heaven", 13 hours away from Cairo in the middle of the
nowhere. Visited by the Alexander the Great, where he was crowned as
Son of Amun, the master god of the Ancient Egypt, has made this
Oasis seem like a dream to me.
I had just got this nice traveling Humidor, Model 1120, which I
thought was just right for this trip. I took some of my favorite
Willem II Cigars and off it was to Siwa. It's a great place, with a
very peaceful simple life, a culture that has been living there near
the mountain and gifted with the natural water that comes out of the
earth, it's surely an Oasis in Heaven, a great place to have a nice
smoke in a peaceful mood.
On the 3rd day there, we went out to the desert on a Safari Trip. It
was just great with the huge desert all around, for even more
excitement the driver was driving us through an unusual way, which
is not so common there.
After 40 minutes of driving deep into the desert heading to a water
spring that is somewhere in the middle of the desert, the jeep was
driving very fast up one of the sand dunes, up and up and suddenly
we were actually in the air, there was no surface going on for the
car to drive down, just a cut in the dunes, so the car fell down on
the ground and rolled over itself 2 times I believe, for us it was
like 10 rounds or more, with all our stuff flying in the air and our
heads hitting against the windows and the jeep's floor.
Then it was the complete silence, we were on the sand again.
I got out of the car, and I couldn't feel anything unusual, except
that my knees and arms were hurting some, yet a friend of mine and
some other tourists who were with us at the same jeep, were almost
all injured at different parts of their bodies, one at the head, one
was screaming in pain, and my friend, some wood sticks got into his
hand and out from the other side, it was so painful to see all this.
It took us about an hour to handle all the injuries, meanwhile I
didn't even bother to check my backsack and my cigars bag, specially
that it was so obvious that so many video and normal cameras were
not functional, if not damaged by the accident.
Next thing was, that the guide started a walk to the nearest camp in
the desert, which was 6 hours walk away, I couldn't think of
anything better than checking my stuff at that point. One of my
cameras were broken, but everything else was fine.
I was truly impressed that my Humidor looked OK, not to mention that
I had to clean it up from the broken glass and some tools that was
all over it. I was so sure though that there was no way I would find
a single complete Cigar, only ruins or just very small broken parts
of them, still I opened the box, and I was truly amazed that all my
cigars were 100% fine, and in great shape, and none of them even
moved much from it's original place. I am not really talking about
this kind of amazement that you might be feeling now, but I mean
TRULY amazed, imagine this, you are in the middle of the desert, not
knowing when you will be picked up, had a terrible accident with men
so badly injured, and a lot of valuable cameras and stuff were part
or completely damaged and the last thing you can imagine is that
your cigars might be still on their original state, and you just
find them perfectly fine, with not problem at all.
I walked up a small hill nearby where we were, and had a lovely
smoke along with others until some jeeps reached us almost 12 hours
later and got us out of there.
It was a truly exciting experience for me.
Mahmoud Shitawey
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I wanted to thank you for your quick response
in shipping me my new inserts for my armored humidor. I had
misplaced mine and couldn't recall where I had last used it in the
fall of 1999. It re-appeared this spring when I got the golf clubs
out and found it in one of the storage pockets. There were 8
cigars still in the humidor - and there were still as fresh as the
day I'd put them in - thanks again for a wonderful product. I've
already recommended it to about a dozen acquaintances and others
I've shown it to on the golf course. It's now the only humidor I
use - I ditched my wooden one which required constant checking of
humidity levels.
Wonderful product - thanks - Bob Neiers
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We were driving up to Ely, MN on hwy. 169 in December to visit a
friend. The roads were slushy and we were traveling at what we
thought was a safe speed, about 40mph with 4WD. We hit a patch
of ice and the truck started to fishtail. The fishtailing
became uncontrollable and the truck started heading toward the
ditch, back end first. We hit the ditch, the truck flipped.
When we flipped, the contents of the bed, mostly Rubbermaids and the
Armored Humidor were spewed
everywhere. Well, needless to say being that it was cold out
everything shattered. Well, almost everything. The A.H.
was the only piece of plastic that large that was spared a
thrashing. The truck was totaled and the rubbermaids have
since been replaced, but we were very thankful that our smokes were
intact. We needed them after that.
Josh Rushlo
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