Test/Intro

Don't drink the banana beer in Tanzania (the picture is a huge vat of boiling bananas, which are reduced to a paste and turned into alcohol somehow).  Or the banana wine.  Or banana juice.  Actually, if you don't like bananas, don't go to Tanzania; every major food in the country is a derivative of bananas or plantains.  They grow everywhere, and so that's what people eat.

Bananas are not high on my list of food choices, so I will not be returning to Tanzania in this trek.  That being said, I will be traveling to India, Nepal, Thailand, Hong Kong, China, Lebanon, Turkey, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Hungary, Serbia, Bosnia, Croatia, Albania, Montenegro, and Greece.  I'll be alone for the first 2 months and then meet up with Katie and Tori for the Eastern Europe leg of the trip.

When I get back, I'm hoping to get my MBA at Rice or UT, but that's clearly dependent on an acceptance letter, which is not yet in hand.  If that doesn't work out, more risk management/trading is likely in the future.(I love you, Glencore, Vitol, and Trafigura; save a spot for me.)

And yes, I know the Tanzania bit was random, but I wanted to try the picture posting.  So deal with it.