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Published: December 17th 2008
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BALEADA
This is the main dish of Honduras. Ball-ee-ah-dah. The Baleada alone is better than all Jewish food combined. Granted, bagels, lox, and matzah ball soup kick major league tuchus, but then when you throw kasha, kugel, and gifelte fish into the mix, Jewish food takes a huge step back from the all-mighty Baleada. Picture a huge tortilla with any variety of meats and vegetables, combined with beans and cheese. You say it’s a burrito, but it’s not. It’s a Baleada. It’s great and cheap. That is why I capitalize it, because it is so so good. Surprisingly enough, the best Baleada we had was in a strip mall on our last day.
FOOD DO’S AND DON’TS
DO: Eat a Baleada
DON’T: Eat meat on a stick
DO: Eat pineapple. They have an extra sweet kind of pineapple in Central America called the Azucarron (super sugary), that doesn’t survive the exportation to the U.S. due to all of the sugar in it, so you have to eat it here. Do it! Let me just say that I didn’t eat pineapple before I came to Honduras, now I eat it all the time.
EN CONCLUSIONO
Eventually the
travels, like all parties, end and you have to go home or you end up like that ballooned Mr. Murray in Roatan.
Every trip teaches you something. That’s why it’s called a trip. You travel not just physically, but mentally as well. Even a weekend in Vegas teaches you something, like not to get too drunk in a bar with really large women in it, because you lose your perspective. But that’s another story for another day.
Long trips in foreign countries, obviously affects you more deeply than a weekend in Vegas. This reason alone is why you should keep on traveling to places where you don’t feel comfortable. Embrace the awkwardness and fear, don’t run from it as so many people do. What I got from this trip is not just learning about other countries, but you learn more about yourself. Each trip defines what kind of traveler you are. I come off as a bit of a kvetcher, but in reality, I’m not. I do it to hopefully entertain you as you read this, but more importantly, inspire you to do some traveling. Traveling puts everything into perspective. Discovering what’s really important in life. Life is most often simple. The important parts of life are eating, drinking, sleeping, and interacting with your fellow man. The un-important parts of life are things like worrying about traffic on the 405, that is unless it interferes with your eating, drinking, sleeping, or interacting with your fellow man. What you decide to focus on, is as always, entirely up to you.
This trip taught me a lot, but also a little. Because it’s the little things that you forget during the daily grind. I learned that I need to simply enjoy life more. Easy, right? Not always. I often let the stress of life inhibit my ability to have fun, see friends and family, simply smell the flowers. Many times I won’t do social things because I feel like I have to catch up with the job, or things to do around the house. But in reality, you will never be done with things to catch up on or things around the house, so I think the best thing to do is create a time line and stick to it. For example, with this travel blog I could have spent three days non-stop just writing it and getting it done. Sure I’d give up on the important things, but I’d be done. But what’s the joy of finishing something if you don’t enjoy the process? I wrote this one hour a day and when I finished my one hour, I was done. No regrets. Obviously, if I were getting paid to write this, I’d have IV’d some Red Bull and been done in two days, but until that happens, I’ll take this lesson from my old and great Central American friend, Honduras. Relax, eat some pineapple, relax some more, drink a Port Royal, relax some more, cheer for old Marathon, fall asleep on a hammock, have dreams about Phoebe, and nightmares about Muneca.
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