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  There’s Always Money in the Banana Stand

  04.23.11 | Permalink | 11 Comments

  I noticed the silliest thing today: there are bananas growing in my yard. Where am I, the tropics or something? I thought Florida was only good for citrus and yachts, and now suddenly there’s a potassium shrub right next to where we keep the garbage cans. I’ve noticed the bananas many times before, but it [...]

  

• America, animals, cooking, florida, florida restaurants, Gerald, home cooking, MEAT, Parks, Reverse Culture Shock

  A Round of Light Boxing

  04.19.11 | Permalink | 8 Comments

  I’ve now been in Florida 6 months, and let’s not pretend it has been an easy transition, because it hasn’t. The job market here is about as dry as British humor and not nearly as entertaining (though in a coup, I recently had an interview, which is as far as it went). The unavoidable and [...]

  

• America, animals, florida, headaches, less food-related, mysterious ingredients

  Tars and Stripes Forever

  04.09.11 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  While walking on the beach yesterday, John and I were treated to a special exfoliating pedicure. The newest luxury exfoliator: Tar! (I put in the bottle cap for size reference. This was a small to medium sized tar pool.) It’s such a good exfoliation method that it doesn’t even come off your feet. It just [...]

  

• animals, entrees, headaches, Thailand, travel

  Promises and Pachydermal Proboscides

  02.14.10 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Throughout my few years of travel, I’ve learned a lot of interesting things: pineapples grow in the ground. Smile innocently at your waiter in Italy and you’ll get free drinks whether you wanted them or not. In the Costa Rican forest, that huge thing you think is a tree is technically a vine. Jaguars will [...]

  

• animals, Kuala Lumpur, less food-related, Malaysia, temples, travel

  Passage to India

  01.27.10 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  It’s always tough to prioritize travel dreams, because if you handed me a ticket to anywhere, I’d go without hesitation. But a few times over my years of conversations with other wanderers, I’ve been asked the top five places I want to go. India has always held a place on the list. Sunday, our last [...]

  

• America, Gerald, holidays, huzhou, less food-related, travel

  Hu-ville

  07.16.09 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  I was intending to take advantage of fast, unblocked Internet to update a lot during my visit home. Things were said, promises made. But then I got there and I couldn’t really think of anything to take pictures of or write about. I mostly spent time revisiting my American habits. My good friend Rachel and [...]

  

• America, animals, fish, less food-related, musings, travel

  One small step for man

  06.30.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Physics has never been my forte (ditto with anything numerical or scientific), but one thing I do recall from my high school Intro to Physics class is the general idea of the Theory of Relativity. Basically that someone traveling the speed of light for a certain amount of time will age slower than a stationary [...]

  

• animals, less food-related, out and about, temples, travel

  So a foreigner walks into a bar…

  06.11.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I’ve been through many breakfast phases in my life. There were the frosted strawberry Poptarts, the toaster oven frozen hash browns, the Honey Bunches of Oats, the Honey Nut Cheerios, the hard boiled eggs and toast, the huge bowl of pineapple, the Good Friends, cold pepperoni pizza. These were all separate phases, of course. I [...]

  

• animals, Kashgar, mysterious ingredients, travel

  Diplomatic Immunity

  05.08.09 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Paris: Eiffel Tower. Cairo: Pyramids. China: Great Wall. London: Big Ben. Kashgar—wait, what? A lot of people were a bit baffled by my jaunt out to Kashgar. Some westerners had never heard of it, and most of my students thought I was crazy. The western part of China is far poorer (yet, in my opinion, [...]

  

• animals, chicken, entrees, Gerald, musings, out and about, Parks, restaurants, travel

  Deja Vu on LSD

  02.21.09 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  When a city has a close proximity to the Silk Road, Tibet, Laos, Myanmar/Burma and the rest of Southeast Asia, a history that dates back to 279 BCE and later includes a visit from Marco Polo, has been a major market, communication, military, and transport center, and has a (comparatively) large Chinese Minority presence, I [...]

  

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