Maybe not daily

Who was I kidding? A daily blog! Sorry to those of you out there waiting with bated breath for more exciting adventures from Malaysia. I'm sure you all rush to your computers every hour to see if I have written anything new. I should have known a daily blog was impossible. It takes me five days to recover from one exciting day! Seriously though, this is obviously not going to be a daily blog, but I will keep posting!

I've tried to abandon my manic need to see, touch, feel, taste, and smell everything. The latter two probably as a result of melling and tasting the "King of Fruit" here, the durian. It smells like a mixture of very potent urine and vomit (I'm not exaggerating), but I refused to allow that to deter me from trying it. I took a bite about the size of my baby toenail and tears immediately welled up in my eyes. It was all I could do not to spit it out. While the Malaysians and Chinese love it, it definitely tops my list of foods I would not want if I was on a deserted island. Certain pockets of Malaysia always had a weird smell when I walked through. I have now identified that smell as the durian. Now when I smell it as I'm walking around, it triggers the taste memory, and my stomach starts throwing punches. Not pleasant. I thought Jeff was just a stubborn, Born-in-the-USA, good ol' boy