Jimmy’s Fourth Rule for International Travel

Me Knows Better Than to Say This… but I will.  Sorry for the long time between blogs, but I have been traveling… I mean working.  I know the blog should come first, but Jimmy has to eat (bad choice of analogies here as you will read later).  However, the job does give me plenty of material to write about.  A few blogs ago I had “Three Rules for International Travel.”  See:  http://meknowsbetter.blogspot.com/2010/03/three-rules-for-international-travelers.html

Well today, I must amend this to a fourth one:  Eat First, Ask Questions Later.

The fourth rule must be strictly adhered to in Asia… particularly in China.  Jimmy really likes Chinese food (Americanized Chinese food that is as I have come to realize there is a distinct difference).  On a recent travel to Guangzhou, I was treated to a special dinner where the patrons select live food from tanks and it is prepared right away.  I have now come to appreciate mammals which walk on four legs and are found prepackaged at Cub Foods.   

Jimmy has also learned to eat more vegetables since at least those are recognizable food forms.  Not sure I have, or will ever acquire the taste yet for alligator, water beetles, sea urchins, snakes, or geoduck glams (whatever the heck those are, but they sure are ugly even when alive).

Remember besides:

1.      Any sleep is good sleep.  

2.      Whenever food is placed in front of you, it must be time to eat.  

3.      Start each and every day with a healthy breakfast because the day can only get better after eating that crap.

And now the latest rule:

            4.  Eat first, ask questions later.