ditto

I'm ashamed to say I had no idea how holocaustic the Belgian rein was.

Like Bourdain, when I was a teen, I was fascinated by the Congo and read everything I could get my hands on about it. Amazingly tragic region. Especially the Lumumba/Mobuto fiasco.

In 1990, I joined the Peace Corps and was supposed to go to Zaire (which Mobuto renamed the country) to teach English. But two weeks before going, it was determined there was two much unrest and my assignment was cancelled. I was later given the opportunity to go to Rwanda instead, but I had moved to L.A. by then and turned it down.

I often wondered what my life would've been like if I had done my two years in Zaire.

I still want to take a steamer from Kisangani to Kinshasa down the Congo.

Rwanda woulda been safer?

lol...turned out not so much.

so I happen to be reading The Sheltering Sky and am catching up on the show. Watching Tangier now and they keep referring to Paul Bowles. I so wanna go here (but not the Sahara!)

this is back as of 2 days ago

Ep.Num. Overall Title Airdate
2-01 9 "Jerusalem" September 15, 2013
2-02 10 "Spain" September 22, 2013
Andalucía during Semana Santa
2-03 11 "New Mexico" September 29, 2013
2-04 12 "Copenhagen" TBA
2-05 13 "Sicily" TBA
2-06 14 "Detroit" TBA
2-07 15 "Tokyo" TBA
2-08 16 "South Africa" TBA

Thanks for the heads up!

I've seen a couple of these, Jerusalem and The Congo, both excellent. It seems way too good for CNN tbh.

nm is on my list of next vacation spots in usa

I'm just catching up with season two. New Mexico was a little slow. But Jerusalem, South Africa, Detroit, and Tokyo have been awesome. Sicily was solid - more like a No Reservations ep he was rebelling against.

Edit: I'm still watching Tokyo and it's just getting crazier and crazier. He's talking to the father of tentacle porn now. Japan definitely wins weird.

I'm trying to figure out what could possibly be interesting about Copenhagen.

i watched tokyo and detroit last week. both were really good. probably my favorites of the season. and i agree that copenhagen was boring.

season 3 confirmed:

just watched the Detroit one, never knew I work couple miles from that farm that show at the end.

I watched Detroit last night, very good. Watching Sicily tonight.

Enjoyed watching many of these during the marathon they had the last couple days.

Sicily was awesome, some great food porn and the "fishing" scene made me lol.

Holy **** Tokyo is crazy, but I would love to visit there.

LA Koreatown episode is fantastic. I used to live just west of Koreatown and loved all the food options.

Tokyo Nights episode was amazing

Episodes:
Punjab, India
Las Vegas
Lyon, France
Mexico City
Mississippi Delta
Russia
Thailand
Bahia, Brazil

http://cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com/20...-sun-april-13/

o/u on the number of dive bars he will find this season?

Eleventy billion.

awesome

new season starts tonight....

Great episode.

I've never been all that interested in visiting India, but man, do I want to visit the Punjab region now.

Yeah, that episode was excellent. I'm often the most interested in the last places I think about traveling to.

I was in NOLA a few weeks ago and apparently the bar we wondered into in the Warehouse district is one of AB's favorites in the city. Vic's Kangaroo Cafe. It was a great place

new vegas one tonight...cant wait.