Cook Well, I certainly could not have gone much farther than Lesotho, which is almost halfway around the world from San Francisco. The exact halfway point, straight through the globe, is somewhere in the Indian Ocean, just a few hundred miles' swim away. Culturally, too, it's a world away from any place I've ever been.
People eat so much cabbage that the smell becomes pervasive.
There are several different languages and ethnic groups. Perhaps part of the appeal was going to a place which almost no one I know has ever heard of. It is a country which has maintained its independence since being unified from several different tribes by King Moshoeshoe I in the mid-1800s. Lesotho survived the colonial period intact when Moshoeshoe asked Great Britain for protectorate status. As it was never colonized, there are fewer whites and less European influence in Lesotho itself than in many African countries.