What to eat?

Another problem J and I are discussing right now is: What to eat when we're travelling?

As many of you know, we are vegetarians, and we've heard that, in Japan, it can be quite difficult to find vegetarian food (see this, for example). Of course we'll be bringing along some of our own food (protein bars, etc.), but I don't really want to walk around with food for a month in Japan. I'm hoping that it won't be too much of a problem in other countries (except maybe South East Asian countries, where they eat a lot of seafood) because there's a strong Buddhist presence in India, In China it's easy to substitute tofu for meat, Nepal has lentils and rice, and Aus. and NZ are 1st world nations, so we can go back to fresh fruit and veggies. I guess in Japan and Thailand we'll have to find kitchens for ourselves and we'll have to print out a bunch of these.

The countdown is on, by the way. We now have exactly 11 weeks before we leave. J and I have been packing up a bunch of stuff in the last week and are already selling some of our furniature on Craig's list. It's refreshing to get rid of some of our accumulated crap, but we've barely made a dent. At least we've started, unlike the other J&M, who are leaving in 3 weeks and just barely started their clean-up.

In an unrelated side-note, I'm about to become a Dr. By the end of this week, it should be official.

-MBH.