I’m a whole continent behind… here’s an update of the meat log i’ve been keeping since the beginning of the year. I’m going to lump Africa into one… and then I’ll work on keeping a better log. Here are all the things that I tried/happened in Africa and Costa Rica so far (which is not much new, sorry!)
Costa Rica: Zip lining, pedaling around on a pink beach cruiser
Africa: Warthog, Pop (it’s white and looks like mashed potatoes but it’s corn meal and very flavorless), sleeping in our tents, seeing big bugs and snakes, goat meat, hitchhiking to the grocery store, our Kruger safari, planting a church, big kid baptism, hiking up the side of a mountain with no path, swimming across a lake
China: New Foods: Pigeon, Yak, Yak Milk tea, Pheasant egg, Pig stomach (a delicacyJ). We saw: the Great Wall of China, Tiananmen Square and parts of the Forbidden City. We rode on trains (for more than 90 hours in 2.5 weeks!). And finally, my favorite, being pulled by a little Chinese man down a street in a rickshaw… it was as ridiculous as you think…
Philippines: New Foods: Lumpia, Adobo, and pheasant eggs, Adventures: Playing paint ball, swimming in the Manila bay/South China Sea, sleeping on a beach, riding in a Jeepney (see below) and a Tricycle (moto with a sidecar!), lice encounters, holding a puffer fish, spending Christmas on a beach, Thai massages, Thai massage in a pizza place at the table while you wait for your food, drinking a frappachino (who knew Starbucks would be an adventure that would catch up with me on the other side of the world!
Cambodia: Riding a motorcycle sidesaddle (riding a moto at all), eating fermented duck egg (a delicacy here- Hard boiled 19 day old duck eggs (Containing a fully formed baby duck fetus) ), “Shark Fruit Eyes” which is actually “Shake Fruit on Ice” but we thought we were getting fruit and shark eyes right until the fruit smoothie was set down in front of us!, eating fruit salad in coconut milk topped with shaved ice and one raw egg cracked over top, Jack Fruit, Twice Baked Frog on a Stick, Tarantula Legs
Thailand: New Fruits: Dragon Fruit, Longon, Rambutan, Eating sheep we slaughtered at the farm skinned butchered and bbqd that night, pig intestine soup, sleeping in a tree house, planting a pineapple field, using a hoe to mow the front lawn, eating fried frog, using a machete to make sticks to plant in the front yard which will grow into a fence, surfing at a lake, eating a whole fish, Bananas boiled in coconut milk (best dessert ever), bright pink taxicabs, tuktuks
