Earlier this week we said farewell to our traveling buddies, as Jen and Becca flew elsewhere in Asia and Katie flew home to the states. While I'm still very excited about the 2 weeks of traveling Matt and I still have, I was also very excited for Katie... in less than 48 hours she was going to be eating homemade guacamole, curled up on a couch, watching the entire season of the Bachelor! What fun.
Anyways, this prompted me to start a couple of lists... I don't expect this to be hardly as entertaining for anyone reading this as I expect it to be for me, so feel free to skip. Also, I may come back to this later and add to it / edit it. Here goes:
Things I miss about home and am really looking forward to:
1. Seatbelts. Despite the mad crazy traffic and bazillions of motorbikes, people here seem way too lax about motor safety. It is hard to even find a seatbelt in this country.
2. Romantic Comedies. I've come to the conclusion that Asians only like scary gory movies... that is all HBO seems to play, and they don't have the pay-per-view movies in any of the hotels here (not even starwoods) so you can't find a good chick flick anywhere.
3. Our own laundry machine, in our house. 5.5 weeks on the road, living out of a backpack? Enough explanation I think.
4. Good air quality. I'm learning to hate smog.
5. Plentiful amounts of Greek yogurt. Probably the food I miss most, most frequently. It's unbelievably hard to get a protein-filled breakfast around here if you don't eat eggs.
6. Having a kitchen, and getting to cook. Reading food blogs is just not the same when you can't actually go try anything out.
7. Being able to drink tap water, and not having to go in search of Aquafina 6 times per day.
8. The "quiet" of the streets in the US... in Vietnam it feels that there is constant honking from motorbikes and near-death run-ins on every corner. I'll be happy to have our normal, orderly streets back.
Things I will really miss about Southeast Asia when we leave:
1. Mango sticky rice, and all things coconut. So good, so fresh, so everywhere. Never gets old.
2. Fruit stands and fruit shakes on every menu. (Same as above.)
3. Pancakes... in all varieties (fluffy, crepe-like, banana-filled, etc.) They are so much better in Asia.
4. Warmth!! I could do without winter altogether this year.
5. 80 baht pineapple curry. The curry in Thailand was so good, that we never got sick of it, even after eating it every single day for 5 weeks straight. I miss it already
6. $3 massages. Will we ever be able to pay full price for them again?
7. The people watching. Between locals, tourists, those on their "gap yah", and everything in between, you really see some random and bizarre stuff on pretty much every street corner, all day and all night. Sitting in a café and watching the street go by can be wildly amusing over here.
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