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Five years ago I had the opportunity to travel to Thailand. While there I got to eat stir fried ants. It sounds gross but the ants didn't really have much taste to them (they were kinda lemon-y). I also had the chance to eat street food, mmmm... pad thai, so good.

Had an amazing goat cheese and tomato tart in Paris. Also tried escargot for the first time. Quite good.

The Lake District in Great Britain. We hiked the fog shrouded hills from Farmhouse and/or pub to the next one on our itinerary.

Just food from a street vendor in the Bahamas.

We visited Mexico last year and had a wonderful time. Got to eat some super mex food. Had super appetizer at one place called empanadas

Years ago, when I was a young teenager, I travelled to Shandong province in China accompanied by my older sister and cousins. It was a trip our parents sent us on to "discover our roots". Little did they know that the tour guides provided 10-15 1 liter bottles of beer at every meal as a sign of courtesy...made for interesting times at the hotel afterwards! Our distant relatives lived in a rural village and came unexpectedly to pick us up so we could stay with them and pay respects to our ancestors buried in a neighboring vineyard. We drove in a minibus on rough roads making little conversation with our limited mandarin. Hours into the trip my cousin and I severely needed a rest stop. The only thing around was a small farm where we stopped. The old farmer sat on a fence eating corn with black fingernails and nodded towards two old wooden walls facing the fields. We walked over to them and peeked over the other side. There was nothing there but a dozens of horseflies hovering over a hole with an ancient form of a sewage system...millions of worms which lived off excrement! Beggars cannot be choosers so we took turns swatting the horseflies off each other's bare bottoms. I've never felt closer to my cousin and it's always been a memory that makes me laugh out loud.

I had a wonderful meal in the historic part of San Juan, Puerto Rico that included flan and mufungo. It was delicious and the atmosphere was wonderful.

We've travelled all over the world, but my favorite travel adventure story was when we got locked in the St. Louis cemetery in New Orleans.

we roamed the outback in austrailia, it was wonderfully empty

I have not traveled very much but my first trip up north (obviously, I am from the Deep South) was the awakening to strange, new foods. What a different culinary world that was. None of the food was anything we tasted as kids. We did not eat out as children and only was accustomed to what we ate at home. We had never heard of pizza much less all the other foreign restaurants and their different smells. I became especially enamored with Greek cuisine. To this day, a gyro and baklava is still one of my favorite meals. I may have missed sweeten tea and butter laden grits but what I discovered to take their place was amazing. I had traveled to a wild remote island named New York City.

I haven't traveled out of the country yet, but I will be going to China within the next year to get my adopted baby girl from China. So winning this would have special meaning for me!

I have not been lucky enough to do too much traveling, but going way upstate New York, near St. Lawrence College and the Canadian border was quite the trip. Instead of American flags everyone had Canadian flags flying! It was like we were in a whole other land.