Celebrity Travel: Go Away With Eddie Kaye Thomas
Q. Are you good at haggling?
A. No. I'm the worst haggler on earth. I was in Morocco once and everything is about haggling there and I have no sense of that. I will pay what they say they want and leave it at that.
Q. Are you an adventurous eater?
A. I'd like to be better than I am, but I think I am. I don't want to eat at the first place recommended in a travel book. I've found some good local food just by wandering around and looking in at places. I know there's no guarantee that I'll find a good place to eat, but I'd rather take that risk than play it safe. I'm willing to try anything once and I haven't ever been made really sick by eating anything overseas.
Q. Where have you eaten some really tasty food?
A. I had some amazing beef in South Africa. I remember some of the beef in Uruguay. And the seafood in Martha's Vineyard -- the local fish there is really good. If that's all I ever ate, I could do that.
Q. A lot of people say they don't like Los Angeles. What's your take on the city?
A. If you come here expecting it to be New York or Chicago, you won't like it. New York is my home and I adore Chicago. I was 17 when I moved out to Los Angeles and I had problems with it at first, because I couldn't just stumble around and get good food like in New York and there wasn't all those different cultures living next to each other like back home. But once I let it be L.A., I appreciated the beaches and mountains and weather. It's 80 degrees now and is going to be sunny all weekend. I hope that I'm in Los Angeles working on "Scorpions" for a really long time. But I promise you that once it's done, I will be moving back to New York.
Q. What are your five favorite cities?
A. New York, Madrid, Chicago, Martha's Vineyard, Kauai in Hawaii.
Q. Do you like to lie low on vacation or do something every day?
A. I wouldn't limit myself to either. I have trouble laying out and not doing anything, but sometimes that's all I want to do. I like to see what's going on in the part of the world I'm visiting, even in Kauai, where people go specifically to lie in the sun. But I've been guilty of traveling really far and not exploring the foreign land.
Q. Like where?
A. When I went to South Africa, we planned a trip to Cape Town and had a great time. But I kind of partied for a week and a half and didn't see all the places I should've. I hate myself for not going on a safari. I wish I had done more and I will when I go back.
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