least favorite:
lao-lao: otherwise known as fermented rice wine, making a rediculously strong liquor, sometimes sold as souvenirs in bottles with snakes, scorpions, gekos, and other crittters inside the bottle. not pleasant tasting
mekong whiskey: VERY cheap thai whiskey, particularly lethal when served in a big plastic bucket, mixed with small amounts of coke and red bull. even more lethal when you consume three of the aforementioned buckets entirely on your own. at least the owner of the bar in cambodia let me and my buddy stay the night on the couch.
favorite: vodka. nice and clean, provides amusing drunken experiences (wandering around a tiny seaside town in vietnam with a friend for 5 hours trying to find our hotel....around the corner from the bar we were at) and yet doesn't tend to give me bad hangovers.
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What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do -- especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.
William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways
Your toughest competitor lives in your head. Some days his name is fear, or pain, or gravity. Stomp his ass.
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