Please join me in my latest attempt to blog, to write, to entertain, and to educate. I am back on within the Writing.com community and hopefully I'll hear from you, as you'll hear from me. While these are my thoughts or impressions or stories, I love the interactive nature of the blog and I look forward to your comments, your challenges, and your inspiration.
Not crazy... I like duck. Finally found it in Hualien in March towards the end of my trip in Taiwan. It's not uncommon but I don't speak the local languages and didn't know how to ask, but seeing a duck hanging in the window is a good clue.
Mexico. Had my chance to order crispy scorpions. But I didn't. I have eaten mealworms in Costa rica though. Maybe that counts.
I don't have too many problems with meat. Goat in Portugal? Check. Squirrel in Kansas? Check. Frog legs in Ljubljana, Slovenia last autumn? Check. Rabbit in Firenze? Check. Whale in Tromsø? Check.
When you wrote this I was in Taiwan taking photos. Actually I was in Zhiben... probably soaked from an unexpected rain. I took maybe 7,000 during a month long trip. I do write, but not as much when I'm traveling. I take pictures.
Now home for over three months. I'm writing daily... kinda... time to go on another trip.
scarlett_o_h I have an aunt who is a vegan and she often criticises me because I do eat meat, but I've been on 7 safaris and post all of these wonderful photos of animals - and I'm against hunting. But I eat meat so therefore I don't really like animals.
And I think you win with the strawberry flavoured soap. Not even I would go that far.
zwisis I haven't been to Turkey for a few years as it always seems to be in the news for the wrong reasons these days, which is a shame, because it is a wonderful country and very open and accepting ... or it was. But no doubt you have some great memories of it.
David McClain I've always had the ability to adapt and make the best out of the situations I find myself in. This will be no different. And I've got an 11 hour time difference with home so I can Skype them before I go to work on the 26th and the whole family will be stuffing their faces back home. That'll be good enough for me.
PlannerDan No doubt you get nostalgic about those times in Venezuela. There will be many years in the future where I'll look back fondly of my Christmasses in Dubai and Saudi and smile.
scarlett_o_h I do get the sentiment about fake sentiments and jollity. I see a lot of that out here too. My sisters visited me in October - their first visit - and it was wonderful. Possibly better than any Christmas I have had.
I remember spending Several Christmases in Venezuela as a kid and adolescent. Dad worked in the oil field and signed two-year contracts with the oil companies to drill for black-gold in the jungles and on Lake Maracaibo. We had to make do with what we had. As for me, it never bothered me. I had my family around me and there was the extended family of the other Americans who worked alongside Dad. I think it was roughest on my Mom, being separated from her family.
It's good that you have others there with you. And, being a little homesick at Christmas is not a bad thing. It's proof of some meaningful times in the past. Funny, but I sometimes get a little nostalgic about those times in Venezuela with all the friends we made. One thing for sure; there certainly wasn't any snow....lol.
It's perfectly okay to miss your home when you are thousands of miles away either by choice or by necessity. Nostalgia is a powerful thing and we all have bouts of yearning for how things were in the past...it's natural.
It could be that your heart is trying to tell you that it's time to go home, maybe not. That is for you to decide. Have a Merry Christmas, Ger and a Happy New Year and wherever you are...Canada or Saudi Arabia, we will be here....Your friends in the Magic Box.
Voxxylady Thank you for stopping by. Hopefully I can start to blog and write regularly again so you are not disappointed in me. I shall be adding you as a favourite as well.
{user: scarlett_o_h} I'm so glad to see you are still here. This is going to be a fun journey back into writing. I'll be adding you as a favourite again.
Kåre Enga in Montana I believe I read a lot of your stuff on Open Salon, so I am familiar with you and your work. It's good to see another familiar emoticon out here.
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