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TSRA commented about Thailand Market Shrimp and Fuzzy Fruit, On Wednesday July 1st, 2009 06:41:50 PM
Andy, fellow Indiana native here.
Your travels are interesting but you really dont seem to have an inquisitive nature about the foods you encounter. Fuzzy fruit? The lychee is very common in asia, certainly you should have learned the name by now. Shrimp cocktail? Seems as though your palate is still stuck back at the local diner.
I looked for other postings about food on your sight (very little by the way considering all of the different places youve been). You mention a good food to have on a bus or plane is to pop open a can of tuna. Please consider the other passengers, especially after you have complained about body odor so much. Something with a neutral odor is more considerate.
Im beginning to wonder about how much you get your head into the places you travel. Although I do find your insights interesting.. many times they remind me of other Hoosiers who cant quite come to the understanding that there are vastly different cultures and the reasons behind those differences.
Sorry for my first post to be of this nature but I just had to vent a bit.
Good travels.
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TSRA commented about Thailand Market Shrimp and Fuzzy Fruit, On Sunday July 5th, 2009 11:08:31 PM
Thanks for the clarification on the name of the fruit Nick. According to wiki the lychee and rambutan are closely related and bear some similarities though the Rambutan is fuzzier.
I think you missed the point of my earlier post which was that I dont get a lot of details that would seem answered by an inquisitive traveler. Andy notes that he is always fascinated by the fuzzy fruit. Hasnt he asked what they are yet? Has he had a taste? Are the sweet, sour, or bitter?
There are a lot of travel blogs out there and the readers are the customers so to speak. Is it arrogant to expect a little more than what I could get from a Tripadvisor thread.
And if I was worried about everything being so correct I would mention that your first sentence is somewhat incoherent but that would be picking nits.
However let me say that I do respect Andys travel credentials. He certainly is prolific and does well with variety of content.
Good travels
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TSRA commented about 80,000 Dollars Verizon Phone Bill is a Bizarre End to my Review of BlackBerry, On Thursday March 3rd, 2011 06:39:59 PM
Hey Andy
The African trip was great to read about but I am glad to hear you have taken hold of your senses and are leaving. I imagine that other readers have felt the same in noticing that maybe you were letting your guard down in falling for Bah and West Africa. Just because a place exotic and not frequented by other travelers does not make it a paradise.
Please don't take this the wrong way and if I am wrong then I apologize.
I'm looking forward to many more adventures from you in places that maybe I would visit with the wife. Someplace more practical, stable, safe, and cheap. See what you could do with a budget in a more developed country. I think that would be a real challenge for you. After all almost anyone can stay in the 3rd world, live like a 3rd world person and pay next to nothing for food and shelter though 99.9 of us choose not to.
Also in regards to being thought of as a spy. Consider that many of these villages have only word of mouth, grapevine type ways of keeping tabs on neighbors and when a strikingly different person enters their world the talk really ramps up. Imagine what all is being said about you, your relationship with Bah, and your business being in such a remote and untraveled area of the world.
Get home safe, spring is beautiful in Indiana.
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