Anthony Bourdain in front of butcher stand, Cuba

Anthony Bourdain, On Getting Really Sick While Traveling [Quote]

In the March 2011 print issue of Budget Travel, Travel Channel host and uber-traveler Anthony Bourdain was asked if, during all his travels, he’d “ever gotten really sick”. His response:

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Twice in 10 years, and it wasn’t a surprise. Simple diarrhea is another story; it’s something you just have to be prepared for as a traveler. You bring your appropriate medications, but it’s hardly the end of the world. And I always try to remind people: Leave yourself open to the perfect meal by leaving yourself open to the occasional really bad one. The best kind of vacation is one where everything goes marvelously and memorably wrong. Those are the incidents you laugh about 20 years later.

Brilliantly put. Street food is almost always the best, fastest way to “taste” the local culture.

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