Vegetarian Travelers Still Experience Culture

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8-28-2012 @ 1:52PM

Tim said...

It can be difficult. My wife & I are vegan and travelled for 3 months in Chile/Argentina this year. We found it too difficult to stay vegan and switched to vegetarian but it wasn't easy either. We felt we were a burden and inconvenience to many people. Especially down in the south where fresh fruits and veggies are hard to come by, it was much harder. We did a lot of hitchhiking and depended on the graciousness and hospitalities of many people. We did our utmost best not to be a pain, and we probably weren't, but it was stressful for us. Our Spanish is probably at a 2nd or 3rd grade level and they would all want to know why we didn't eat meat and it wasn't exactly easy to explain!

We're definitely going to be doing more travel in the future. It can be done. It's worth it, but every experience will be different. Sometimes it will be easy and sometimes hard.

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