Ask a hitchhiking hippy....

[CapnAwesome]

How about worst living conditions, for you and then for the indigenous population?

What about food? Best food, worst, most strange (Anderw Zim fan)? Comments on street food.

Well I've slept in a million weird places. Mostly I live in a tent, although right now I actually live in a room for the summer and I have a truck. Also thinking about buying a sailboat. I had no idea how affordable sailboats are. Basically every large south and central American city has enormous slums. I think it's ironic that Americans think of Mexico as a poor country. Not really, not if you compare it to everything south of it. Lima was pretty crazy when it came to slums. My friend who I went there with grew up in Caracus, Vensualua and a series of mudslides in 1999 killed around 50,000 people living in the slums on the hillside there.

Mexico has the best food of anywhere I've been, easily. The first time I spent significant time there I gained 15 lbs. The rest of Latin America is rather bland and I would say Chile has the worst food. Their national dish is something called the 'completo' which is a hotdog with a grotesque amount of mayo on it and some fake guacomole. In Peru I ate Cuy, which in Guinuea Pig. It tasted a little like beef. In Australia I had Kangaroo, which tasted like venison. In Columbia I ate Pirahana, which tasted like fish and had way too many bones.

My comment on street food is that I never seem to get sick from it. I think all the liquor I was drinking killed off the bacteria or something. I've never been to India though, I think that's the real test for street food and travelers diarrhea.