What will we discover, where we boldly go ?

[August]

Originally Posted by Aktungbby

We will probably discover that the third rock from the sun is the finest place in the universe to live...

Being from New England it's the story of my life. I am not exaggerating when I say that my home town has the best pizza I have ever tasted anywhere, and I have looked, extensively, for something that even can match it over half the planet and nothing comes even close. Don't believe me go try it yourself. C&M Pizza in Leominster. Just be prepared for a bit of a let down every time you eat pizza from anywhere else ever again. It's like the Shangri-La of pizza, once you eat it you can never go back to mortal pies.

It's not just pizza either, NE has the best weather, the best food the best environment, heck even our environmental disasters, "Nor'easter" blizzards, are pretty mild when compared to the damage and destruction caused by tornadoes, earthquakes and wildfires that are suffered by the rest of the country, it truly is a land of plenty in so many ways.

The downside of this blessing and there always is one, is that everywhere I travel it's often a bit of a gastric disappointment. For example you'd think a sand bar state like Florida would have damn good seafood right? Nope. I went down there really hoping to try something better than I can find at say Browns Lobster Pound up at Hampton Beach NH but I was shocked to find that Florida seafood consists mostly of unidentified lumps of fish or reptile (doesn't seem to be much of a distinction) deep fried to hockey puck consistency in some kind of rancid oil like stuff that smells like it once helped to mark a Harley-Davidsons parking spot. Again I do not exaggerate.

How can this be? Delicious fresh fish nearly surrounds the state and they seem to have no clue about how to cook it so that it's actually edible. It ain't like we have some kind of monopoly on good cooks up here and the same highway that runs through Boston also runs through Miami (as our football talent has discovered recently), so i'm thinking it has to be environmental, maybe the water or the local bacteria or the air or something but it ain't just missing the taste of home I can tell you that!