Though many things that Tyson found enjoyment in from his time in the army with The Colonel and their escape across the Middle East have been sullied by bad memories, there are ones that only conjure up good memories of those days.
One of those is hot-springs, hot tubs, and saunas; of the conventional forms of stress relief, Tyson does tends to get good results from those that require heat. Since those days, there is an added benefit in helping to soothe the pain from his old wounds.
Something that Tyson has observed when travelling around is that certain people have a ‘radar’ for finding certain places within a city. Dick and Sebastian, and many others with a dependency on alcohol, will immediate narrow in on the location of a bar.
Without failure, Kim would make a beeline for any stall selling sweet, sticky treats in the ever-changing and rearranging marketplace in Turkmenistan. He can always trust Billy to track down the best Italian restaurants and Nate seems to have a magnetic connection to any place that sells brunch.
One of the other places that Tyson could reliably expect The Colonel to home in on as reliably as Tyson’s Synesthesia could were hot-springs and saunas. He has good memories of team bonding exercises, The Colonel dragging the First Bangalore Pioneers out during a week break between deployments to go to an artificial hot-spring he’d managed to track down.
Tyson remembers passing through one of the few larger towns that Sebastian and he dared to brave during their escape, his entire body aching and being surprised when Sebastian decided on impulse to spent their scraps of money on a hotel room/suite. Looking back, he should have guessed that there would be a hot tub on the balcony. The hot food that they absolutely did not pay for was also a nice treat.