"Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up." - Ernest Hemingway

So, it's been about 4 months since my last blog post. I feel like I'm starting an AA meeting...

In February, my husband and I went to South America with friends. It was a terrific trip, and I'll be posting some pictures in the next few posts.

We took off from Logan airport with nothing to report (thank god) although I did succumb to my inner demons and had an Egg McMuffin for breakfast. Growing up, when my family would road trip for vacations, our parents would let us get McDonald's. My favorite was breakfast, and my absolute favorite was the Egg McMuffin with hash browns and an orange juice. So it felt good to have that again, although this time without the hash browns. Nowadays, I make egg sandwiches at home - with Canadian bacon, farm eggs and real cheese. They are delicious, and especially pretty if you use egg rings to shape the eggs into the perfect sandwich patties.

Anyway, we landed in Miami without incident, and were starving for a decent lunch. Unfortunately, everthing in the airport was fast food or worse: Villa Pzza, Nathan's Hot Dogs, Pizza Hut, blech. We just knew if we ate that we'd be in trouble somewhere over the Caribbean. Then our friend suggested Sushi Maki, which the rest of us had discounted, thinking it was food court sushi in an airport. Instead, it was a glorious little oasis in the middle of an otherwise horrible airport. Table service and reliable sushi in an airport setting. We ordered chicken fried rice, "blazing noodles" with veggies, miso soup, gyoza and some cooked sushi (we're not crazy-we were in an airport!), which included the dynamite roll (shrimp, scallops and crab stick), the dragon roll (eel, shrimp and avocado) and the volcano roll (an otherwise innocuous shrimp and crab roll that was quite unfortunately drowned in spicy mayo sauce, which was meant to resemble lava). The food was terrific for airport food, the service was a little flighty, and the sushi was better than most of the other items on the menu. And we were grateful to have found such a welcome, calm atmosphere at the Miami airport.