I've been home just over a month having completed trips to Haiti and Viet Nam for medical work.
Already, I am starting to feel restless and my feet are getting itchy and I want to leave now. Although I'm taking my mother to see the fall colors and have started to look at maps, I need a fix. This is where you come in.
What was your last trip and your favorite memory from it? Involving food of course! Mine actually did not have food involved, a bad idea. It did, however, involve the Caribbean, a partially submerged ship, bottles of rum, the hot sun and an otherwise responsable, respectable medical team blowing off steam after a grueling week's work. And our team lead calling from the shore "I don't think that swimming and drinking's a good idea!"
She was absolutely right of course but when your Haitian translators present you with bottles of rum 50 yards from shore, we could hardly refuse!

It has only been a few days since I've returned from Yosemite; back to the tree-less monotony of city life! However, while I was there, the county fire fighters were monitoring a "prescribed burn"-man's way of reproducing natural lighting strikes that would rid the forest of highly flammable underbrush layers.
Yet, as we hopped aboard the yellow tourist-friendly tram that took us around the valley floor, all I could think was 'damn fire-the smoke is going to ruin all my photos'. Oddly enough, the flames proved to do quite the opposite. As the tram circled back, our tourguide calmly announced that we might experience some "discomfort" and thus proceeded to drive us right by the said forest fire! It was suprisingly hot and dense with smoke, all the while fascinating to watch the fire eat up limbs and bushes. I waved to the firemen and could have high-fived them-We were just that close.
So, irony of ironies, my favorite experience inside the Yosemite National Park was infact the forest fire; the fire that could keep the balance between a flourishing forest and a floundering one.

I'm on the road right now. Have been in Singapore for the past month, and leaving for Malaysia tomorrow.

So far on this trip the most memorable food of this trip was the shark fin soup. As a rule I would have never ordered it, since I don't believe in the killing of a shark only for it's fin. However I was the guest, and my host ordered it. Must say it was very tasty.

Staring tomorrow I will be following a similar travel path as Anthony did in Malaysia. Will start off in KL, then fly over to the other side... However I think I'll skip the tattoo. ;-)