Yuck, yuck and YUCK!!! You mean he ate rats & frogs and didn’t even get paid for it?! Ewwww, this just sounds horrible – not the kind of vacation I want to take. Lol. Lions LB DeAndre Levy vacationed in the jungle this summer & his meals were interesting to say the least.
Check out this story…
Via USAToday:
While most of us slap on SPF 50 and hang out at the beach, Levy hiked through Peru, spending time on the Inca Trail to Machu Pichu and exploring part of the Amazon rainforest. Levy isn’t one to shun the authenticity of his travels either. He told The Detroit News that a few of his meals during the trip consisted of frogs and … rats.
“[My teammates] thought the Amazon was nuts, eating frogs and rats and piranha and stuff like that,” Levy said.
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– You can read all about his trip at The Detroit News:
“Ever since I was little I’ve wanted to go to the Amazon,” said Levy, a 26-year-old Milwaukee native who says Mount Kilimanjaro and Kenya are next on his to-do list. “And the way I went about it — I didn’t want to go on a cruise or to a resort or anything like that — I was just out there.”
He’s out there, all right. That’s what some of his teammates tell him — good naturedly, of course — whether it’s his beard that has grown to biblical proportions since last October (“They’re just jealous they can’t grow one this beautiful,” Levy says) or his dry wit and fiercely independent thought. Or his travel itinerary.
“Most of them think it’s crazy,” said Levy, a 2009 third-round pick out of Wisconsin who has been a four-year starter at outside linebacker. “They found out I went skydiving and they thought that was crazy. They thought the Amazon was nuts, eating frogs and rats and piranha and stuff like that.”
Frogs? OK, fine. But … rats?
“Yeah,” Levy said, “there’s a little jungle rodent we had to catch with a spear.”
That’s only a taste, but you get the idea. This is hardcore adventure travel — hunting for food, building his own sleeping hut, and so on — only without a Discovery Channel crew in tow.
“It’s a little intimidating at first,” Levy said. “Swarms of bugs buzzing. You constantly hear stuff moving. The night is alive.”
And so is Levy, though he slept with his machete — wouldn’t you? — and couldn’t help but wonder what else was alive and, well, hungry on the other side of that mosquito netting. He woke up to the sound of bushes rustling a few feet away, but couldn’t see in the pitch black. So who knows? It could’ve been anything.
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