I left JoBurg Thursday evening and arrive in the US Friday evening . It took about 27 hours. I watched a lot of television and movies and the food was pretty good. I flew Virgin from JoBurg to London. Richard Branson was on the flight and went around greeting his customers.
I'll keep blogging to cover some experiences and thoughts I didn't get to while abroad. Such as, the most disgusting thing I ever ate, almost, two days ago.
A nice woman at work makes a corn porridge for breakfast and brings it to work. She would make an extra portion for me sometimes so I could have an authentic SA breakfast. It was good with lots of sugar and milk. By coicindence on my last day of work (I think! I hope it wasn't a treat for my last day) she had brought in another authentic SA food. It some kind of insect or grub. I don't even know.
I'm pretty into food and you have to eat weird things to have street cred as a food enthusiast. There were a few African people at the table in the break room and they were sampling the fried insect. Here I am contemplating one. It's pretty big. And disgusting.
Here I am nomming on a grub. I didn't want to eat that whole thing so I bit off a third. Then I held it in my mouth for thirty seconds. The outside was kind of flaky and crunchy and the inside seemed goey. I couldn't chew it. I wanted to, but I couldn't get past the thought, if I start chewing on this, I'm going to be chewing on bug guts.
So I spit it in the trash and moved on with my life. (center below the napkin)
