[Avodah] When no sukkah is available

[David Riceman]

  RAM:
> But that is *not* the message that Chazal teach us from that story. 
> They went further, and said, "Anyone who avoids drinking outside of 
> the Sukkah, even water, haray zeh meshubach." (Mechaber O"C 639:2)
> Suppose a person is in a place where no sukkah is available or convenient, and he must choose between drinking water outside the sukkah, or not drinking the water at all. It is unquestionably muttar to drink the water outside the sukkah, but Chazal teach that the person who forgoes the water is meshubach.
No, I suspect "hutz l'sukkah" imploies that a sukkah is easily 
available, as in the story you cite.  I suspect that it's motivated by 
"teishvu k'ein taduru" - - in hazal's time it was unusual to eat or 
drink outside of one's home.  But that wouldn't apply, say, to someone 
travelling in a caravan.

David Riceman