Ramblings of a Vegan Traveler

I made homemade hemp milk. Now don't freak, it's free of THC...so no, you can't get high from hemp milk! It's really good, much better than the store bought stuff.  Hemp is an extremely nutritious food.  Hemp was first cultivated in China more than 6,000 years ago, and was used as a food source long before soy foods. Hempseed is considered by leading researchers to be one of the most nutritious super foods on the planet — packed with protein, vitamin E, Omega-3, and GLA. Hemp contains pure, digestible protein, with a good balance of all eight essential amino acids. Hemp is not only delicious, but comprised of smaller-chain edestin and albumin protein, making it the gold standard of plant foods. Hemp has three times the vitamin E of flax and twice the iron and magnesium (a key mineral often depleted by industrial agriculture) contained in flax. Strains of Cannabis approved for industrial hemp production produce only minute amounts of this psychoacti...

  Science based, not just me pushing the "vegie" lifestyle. Forks Over Knives – The Official Movie Website

So the question of course comes up of "what do you eat". It may seem strange or too strict for some to grasp and that is totally fine by me. My reasons for going vegan are for me and me alone. While I would love to see more people give up meat and focus on a plant based diet, I am not trying to convert anyone. If anything I post or publish is intriguing, feel free to ask questions. If anything makes you go "huh?" then just ask. It's been an adventure learning and figuring this all out and I'm still learning, reading and investigating more.  As I figured it would be a bit more difficult to be vegan on the road, but I have tried really hard to stick to it. I strayed a bit due to choices available, but not by choice, more by lack of choice. I am not willing to starve myself for this if faced with being vegetarian or vegan. Some places are just not vegan friendly. It was easy, of course, in Portland (the most vegan friendly place in the US). I had a great ve...