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	How to Get the Most Out of Your Vacation (and Life) Part 1 by Susan Dunn Momentum Coaching
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How to Get the Most Out of Your Vacation (and Life)
Part 1
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Becky asked me how the food was on my river cruise through Russia, and I could tell from her tone of voice she expected it to have been nasty. Nope! It was great.

In fact I returned healthier and more refreshed from all the walking in the perfect weather, the beauty of the rivers and countryside, the charming and beautiful people, and the heavy-on-the-cruiciferous-and-beta-carotene diet. Cabbage, cucumbers, beets, carrots, broccoli, cauliflower everywhere.

A large salad with every meal and just a speck of meat, and also, I told her, one of those "perfect moment" meals.

We'd been tromping around Peterhof, in St. Petersburg, in a chilly downpour, walking for hours through the gardens (a really professional tour guide gutsed it out with us) and then had taken a hydrofoil back to the ship. We were famished and our cheeks were pink from the outing and exercise -- I mean this was a BRISK walk.

And what awaited us for lunch? The usual great salad, and then an individual crock pot, about 8" high, sealed with pastry on the top, and when you broke the crust, the hottest, most delicious most homemade-tasting and yummy sort of pork and potato stew. It was one of those meals that really "hit the spot" that you'll always remember.

What's For Lunch?

"The potatoes in Russia are wonderful," I told Becky. I don't know what kind, but they are excellent, and I'm a connoisseur of the potato. However I was puzzled that when each meal offered a vegetarian selection, we had never been given a huge baked potato.

Becky, who's a world traveler, told me how rare "our" baked potato is around the world -- and how she has excited Japanese exchange students with it, as well as Argentinian visitors who eschewed the steak they were served, in order to get to the delicacy -- the baked potato, wanting to know if it was Russet or Idaho and to hear all about it!

And Speaking Of The Potato

That's the fun of travel -- new experiences, new ways of looking at things. And speaking of the potato, I had taken some books with me to read.

After I plowed through two scientific books related to my field (coaching), I picked up one my sister had brought, The Botany of Desire: A Plants-Eye View of the World, by Michael Pollan.

What else could someone with that name write about?

Michael was working in his garden one day watching the bees buzzing around pollinating the flowers, and realized that he was, in a sense, doing the same thing for the plants. The book takes up from there.

In the book, he explores our (humans) coevolution with plants looking at the relationship between humans and four specific plants: apples, tulips, marijuana, and potatoes.

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