- While traveling, I strive to stick to the wise (and diarrhea-free) traveler's adage: "If you can't cook it or peel it, forget it!" and order my drinks without ice. Maybe there's a little more leeway than that; check out Laurel Miller's five tips to successfully eating street food here.
- Getting ready to travel this holiday season? Dreading having to sit next to an "oversized" passenger on a long-haul flight to Grandma's? Rob Goldstone--5'7" and 285 pounds--shows us the other side of the coin in "The Tricks and Trials of Traveling While Fat." He explains how he's adapted his traveling techniques (buying two seats, beseeching flight attendants for a seat-belt extender at the start of flights) and details some of the surprises he's encountered while traveling the world while fat: being told not to ride Vietnam's rickshaws, struggling to pass through a bus's turnstile en route to a Rio beach, and being playfully poked in the belly by curious kids in China who thought he resembled the Buddha.
- For those coming to D.C. for this Saturday's Jon Stewart Rally on the National Mall, you'll be sure to get hungry from all of your sanity restoring. Check out this list of ten great D.C. restaurants and put our D.C. City Guide to good use.
Photo of National Mall by Photo Phiend on Creative Commons.
Post originale: http://blogs.nationalgeographic.com/blogs/intelligenttravel/2010/10/the-radar-streetfood-eating-ti.html
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