Once you begin cruising, tasks that are mundane back home often become ADVENTURES. Grocery shopping is a perfect example.

Although some of your grocery shopping may involve walking down a supermarket aisle, even this is more challenging when all the labels are in Spanish.

More often, though, shopping involves roaming through the open air produce markets buying very fresh fruits and vegetables.

In Mexico, you will probably stand in line at the corner tortilla factory and buy your tortillas by the kilo.

In Venezuela , we often buy our meat from a full-service butcher shop where we sit at the counter sipping espresso while the butcher prepares our purchase.