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Crowley said a daily iced coffee is a home comfort that she can’t live without, though she’s still on the hunt to find one up to her standards.

Other food and beverage options the couple has tried on their travels have been less familiar, they said.

When Fisher and Crowley were traveling on the Pamir Highway, they said they stayed at a guesthouse where food was prepared by a family. “There’s obviously not a grocery store nearby, so you just eat whatever they have,” Crowley said.

She said one of the most interesting things they sampled was while spending the night in a yurt with a family in Mongolia, where they were given a drink called mountain water. A local guide had warned them that it would be rude according to local culture not to eat what was prepared by the family.

“I believe it’s water mixed with vodka, mixed with sheep fat. It looked like water in a glass with a few drops of oil floating on the surface,” Crowley said.

Fisher said though he is an adventurous eater, this was a difficult delicacy to savor.

“I was like, ‘If I just finish it, then I’m good.’ So I just got it down. And they’re like, ‘Oh, you liked it?’ And they poured me another glass,” he told BI.

Though the couple might not be likely to crave every local delicacy, they said it’s important to try things, and that it can be much cheaper to eat locally than scouting for a home comfort.

“It makes for really cool and interesting experiences,” Crowley said.