When it comes to bugs I'm a complete girly girl... I see a bug & scream... I can't even touch a dead one. IF I kill one, I have to get someone, I've even asked strangers, to dispose of the carcass...Deciding to go ahead with this trip required me to really come to grips with bugs... I knew I'd have way more bugs than I could normally handle. And I was right on. I've had a fearless cockroach stand guard in my hotel's bathroom. Another time I was doing the girly thing, standing on my bed waiting for a HUGE betel to leave when I realized he was going to go hide in my suitcase!!! I found the nerve to get off my bed & race him to my suitcase... I'm now trying to remember to keep it closed. And two hotels have had ant problems... but I still stayed in the places multiple nights. And one hotel had bed bugs... but I did check out the next day....

So I'm getting better with bugs... at least I'm impressed with MY tolerance level...but then the other day.....I went to my favorite breakfast place only to find a dish ready to be served with grasshoppers, larvae & god only knows what kinds of other bugs...I did eat there but I only picked at my food... the same griddle they used to cook my food must have been used to cook all that grossness. Well... I told this to a Hawaiian surfer dude while walking around a market... sure enough they had a bug vendor & this guy had to be gross & try the larvae & then when he had a grasshopper.... well, I threw up a little & decided to pass on his offer to buy me dinner...