As you now know one of my favorite things to do when I travel is eat. Earlier this year I was in Buzios, Brazil, where some friends and I rented a house to just hang out for a few days. We rented a beach buggy and cruised around to all the beautiful beaches on the peninsula. Cocktail hour was approaching so we decided to stop at a little beach shack and order up a round of passion fruit caipirinhas. While we were enjoying the sublime view a local fisherman came around hawking his recent haul of fresh oysters. He offered up a sample and that was all it took. They were just plucked from the sea and had the intense taste of saltwater. We sat there and gorged ourselves on Brazilian viagra.
One of my favorite things to do when I travel is eat. As a kid I was a really fussy eater but as I grew up my taste buds started to evolve. Nowadays I will try (almost) anything. This pic captured a somewhat sublime moment for me a few years ago in Bangkok. My best friends and I were having a cocktail in the lobby of the beautiful JW Marriott when my friend Wayne excused himself and said he would be right back. A few minutes later he arrived back at the hotel with a plastic bag full of deep-fried grasshoppers. Having been in Bangkok a few years prior he new just where to get the juiciest ones! One by one we all took turns sampling the little critters. They actually were not that bad. To me they tasted a bit like fried pork rinds. So there we sat having a cocktail and eating fried grasshoppers before a crazy night on the town.
While speeding through the streets of Denpasar I snapped this dude on a scooter with the most awesome shirt. I wish I could have stopped him to ask where he got it. I'd love to have one in every color! Terrorism is a sad reality in today's world but it will not stop me from traveling. I've always said that if I have to die, I want to die doing what I love.
