one cheeseburger, sixteen months

often the day to day differences between our life here in cambodia compared with our life at home escape me.  mainly because so many big things are different, the smaller ones fade into the background.

food, in general, is of course a big difference.  but things diversity of food, availability of once-convenient things begin to...fade over time.

which is why when chris and i went to bangkok last july and encountered a mcdonalds, for the first time in a year, we were excited but also weary.

we had not eaten any form of western "fast food" in a year.  who knew what it would do to our stomach?

but eat a cheeseburger we did.  and one was enough in fact.  and we weren't all that enticed by the myriads of western chains and fast food that populated the city.

it's funny how, over time, those things that were once readily available, and varying degrees of delicious, begin to seem less appetizing and less...necessary. 

but, dang, were those hamburgers a tasty reminder of home.

do you find that the less you eat fast food, the less you want it?