Meredith Westfall <[log in to unmask]> writes I'm doing these little exercises to prove to my >irrational side that food can always be found wherever one is. Bringing >food down to "It's only fuel" is going to take more time (a lifetime maybe?) I enjoyed and related to all of your post but will respond only to this part. It reminded me of when we would travel in our early raw days. Man, I would be making a stash of stuff that keeps (dates, nuts, honey) to travel with, worrying that there may not be anything at the new destination. It took a while to travel with my passport only and trust that there was raw stuff to buy wherever I might be. Well, maybe not the Soviet Union in February, but we were usually traveling in the tropics, so there was always good stuff to be found. Once I traveled without a "stash" and nothing horrible happened, from there on out I've been quite laid back about it. Say, are you and JR both in NYC? Cheers, Kirt