Sarah: People travel for all different sorts of reasons, and with any number of interests. There are photography buffs, who spend much of their trip looking at the world through the viewfinder of their camera; beach bums, recognized by their leathery, hot-pink or nut-brown skin, extra-large sunglasses, and extra-small bathing suits; adventurers, with their zip-off pants and penchant for rock-climbing, paragliding, scuba diving. There are the partiers, the amateur anthropologists, the enlightenment seekers. We’ve met examples of all of these throughout our trip.

But the (probably true) cliché about travel is that the thing it teaches you the most about is yourself. And on that front, Patrick and I have come to a realization about what kind of travelers we are: shameless foodies.

Patrick: We've been pretty good about putting up the latest photos from our trip on our flickr page so far, not so hot about posting new blog entries, and downright awful about sharing the silent videos we've taken every once in a while. In this post, I'm just going to share the better ones with you, and give you some background where it's needed.

Patrick: We're in northeastern Turkey today, and our hands smell of the perfume that people in the service industry here seem to pour on them every chance they get. But I want to tell you about beautiful Georgia. We've spent two and a half unique weeks in a fine caucasian country that most people in America probably know only as the former soviet republic that has a familiar and pronounceable name. Never mind that the locals call their country Sakartvelo. Did you know that Georgia is slated to have the third largest troop deployment in Iraq, after the U.S. and Britain? Did you know that to get into the capital city of Tbilisi from the airport, you take George W. Bush Highway? Georgia is trying to position itself as one of America's greatest allies. Don't you think we should all know our ally a little better?

Sarah: Now that it's been fully a month since our last update, some of you have probably started wondering where in the world we are, and whether you'll ever hear from us again. As of a week or two ago, we were pretty uncertain ourselves where we were headed. We knew we were getting ready to depart India. Despite the fact that there are years' worth of sites and cities that we would be missing out on in that vast and fascinating subcontinent, we could tell that after spending about two months there, we were going to be ready for a change of pace and a change of scenery. We also knew that we'd be flying to wherever we headed next, which opened up a whole raft of possibilities.