Troy and all,
I haven't travelled since being raw. Also, after 3 years of being strict with my diet for normal people's standards I went to colombia for 4 months and gave up all of my dietary restrictions. At first all went well, i improved a lot anyway because of the TOTAL lack of stress and the climate but eventually i had to work, i went to bogota where it's cold and rainy and it took me 2 months to recover from the trip, work, alcohol, meat, etc.
you asked about my ability to function depending on raw, i have lyme disease and this is the most effective "treatment" so far. I took antibiotics for years, 1001 herbs, colloidal siliver etc etc etc...the other treatment i would recommend people is the rife machine. it is electromagnetic and zaps the bugs. it sounds like a lie but i get the strongest herx (die-off) reactions from this. (colloidal silver, flagyl and the IV antibiotics were the other big producers of herxes, in case there are other lymies on the list, everything else's effect was a bit ambiguous).
Anyway, i have also had problems with chronic fatigue and candida in the past off and on and feel that only now after trying everything am i on the right track. BUT like i said in a private message to troy, i have always travelled in a "when in rome" sense. i have even eaten locusts. i can't imagine telling poor people who are your hosts that their food isn't good enough beyond being vegetarian which a lot of people understand.
I think what troy said makes sense, eat raw at home and eat vegetarian when out when you're in a very different culture or raw is impossible. Therefore i think i'll stay home till cured!
thanks for your comments troy, my biggest problem imagining being raw for the LONG LONG term is picturing doing the kind of travelling i've always done.
Leila

I'm a musician, artist, writer/editor and I also work part-time for my local arts council from May-November as a sound monitor for the street performers in my community.

Shar

You know Leila, if the people you might eat with are open to you eating whatever you want to eat, if they're happy to be with you just to be with you, and are unconcerned about what you eat, then bring your own or arrange ahead of time. Like Bryan said, in another post somewhere, the people he eats with want to be with him for who he is, not for what he eats.

The first time I went out with my boss, he bought me some fruit and we took that to a restaurant. Seemed a strange situation though. I don't think I'd do it again. Seemed so strange.



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Nothing whatsoever should be attached to. - Buddha

troy, Actually you have a point because in the kind of situation i'm talking about, say in a village where people are poor, they'd appreciate you bringing food! but in general, hospitality is much more important in most other cultures than here and the hosts get much more bent out of shape if you won't eat their food, here, while people can be a pain, by in large, people feel that your food is your personal choice. here people would let you get away with an exclusively insect diet if you wanted to. i guess my point was that i'd feel silly being so choosy when hanging out with people who are grateful to be able to eat on a given day at all.

anyway, in only 2 months raw, i've nearly converted several people who have joined me for meals, they really got into it. and of course no one is going try to make me eat differently right now because i've been sick for years.

i hope you are holding up alright over there in korea. i know how isolating it can be. i didn't live there, but i did live in china.
L

What do I do for a living?

I am a mortgage broker and a real estate investor (formally a Microsoft/Cisco network engineer).

What centers me?
Raw meal preparation/creation
Hiking
Yoga
Running
Bicycling
Yard work
Semi-professional bass fishing

My current goal is to pay-off my dulpex in the next five years and then take a year off from work (I'll let my assistant run the business while I'm gone) so that I can do the above full-time.

Thanks,

Arilraw

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