Bathing Elephants in Thailand & a Big Butt Montage
In a recent interview with Life Listed, I claimed that my favorite bucket list adventure was swimming with stingrays in the Grand Caymen. But, that was before bathing elephants in Thailand. Elephants...
View ArticleHunting for a Souvenir at Khamthiang Market in Chiang Mai
Typically, photos are my only traveling souvenir, but there was one thing in Thailand that I was not going home without. A smiling ceramic garden sculpture. Not a gnome. But, similar. There were two...
View ArticleEating a Preserved Century Egg at a Thai Market
While taking a Thai cooking class, we made a stop by Chiang Mai’s Somphet Market to purchase ingredients for our dishes. This proved to be a bit more eventful than originally planned. Of course, it had...
View ArticleTraveling by Tuk Tuk in Thailand & Other Transportation
One of my least favorite parts about traveling is when you first land in a foreign country, after a dozen hours of flying, and have to find transport to your lodging. In a perfect world a limo driver...
View ArticleEating Insects (& Other Fun) at Chiang Mai’s Sunday Night Market
I am not sure what my fascination is with eating bizarre foods, but prior to heading to Thailand there were a couple things that I knew for sure, one was that I would be riding in a tuk tuk and another...
View ArticleDrinking a Shot of Snake Whiskey in Laos
In Southeast Asia you will find the Golden Triangle, where the countries Burma (Mynamar), Thailand and Laos meet with only a narrow river as the boundary. While I was visiting on the Thailand side,...
View ArticleGetting a Foot Massage by a Prison Inmate in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Massage parlors are like tuk tuks in Thailand, they are everywhere. And at four bucks a pop for an hour foot massage, it would have been a shame not to indulge. Especially, right after spending the hot...
View ArticleLearning to Make Pad Thai in Chiang Mai, Thailand
I am a huge fan of taking cooking classes in the countries I travel to. Even after the one lesson in Barcelona led me to the unfortunate conclusion that I don’t like paella. Hopefully, there would be...
View ArticleA Visit to the Long Neck Karen Hilltop Tribe in Thailand
Right after a visit to the peculiar White Temple of Chiang Rai, there was a quick stop to northern Thailand’s Karen Long Neck Hilltribe, who are known for boasting spiral brass coils around their...
View ArticleLearn to Make Handicraft Umbrellas in Chiang Mai
After Peter had left Thailand to go back home to California, leaving me a solo traveler, I scheduled some of the bucket list things that I thought he would have little interest in; seeing a ladyboy...
View ArticleBathing Elephants in Thailand & a Big Butt Montage
In a recent interview with Life Listed, I claimed that my favorite bucket list adventure was swimming with stingrays in the Grand Caymen. But, that was before bathing elephants in Thailand. Elephants...
View ArticleHunting for a Souvenir at Khamthiang Market in Chiang Mai
Typically, photos are my only traveling souvenir, but there was one thing in Thailand that I was not going home without. A smiling ceramic garden sculpture. Not a gnome. But, similar. There were two...
View ArticleEating a Preserved Century Egg at a Thai Market
While taking a Thai cooking class, we made a stop by Chiang Mai’s Somphet Market to purchase ingredients for our dishes. This proved to be a bit more eventful than originally planned. Of course, it had...
View ArticleTraveling by Tuk Tuk in Thailand & Other Transportation
One of my least favorite parts about traveling is when you first land in a foreign country, after a dozen hours of flying, and have to find transport to your lodging. In a perfect world a limo driver...
View ArticleEat Insects at Chiang Mai’s Sunday Night Market
I am not sure what my fascination is with eating bizarre foods, but prior to heading to Thailand there were a couple things that I knew for sure, one was that I would be riding in a tuk tuk and another...
View ArticleDrink a Shot of Snake Whiskey in Laos
In Southeast Asia you will find the Golden Triangle, where the countries Burma (Mynamar), Thailand and Laos meet with only a narrow river as the boundary. While I was visiting on the Thailand side,...
View ArticleGet a Foot Massage by a Prison Inmate in Chiang Mai, Thailand
Massage parlors are like tuk tuks in Thailand, they are everywhere. And at four bucks a pop for an hour foot massage, it would have been a shame not to indulge. Especially, right after spending the hot...
View ArticleLearn to Make Pad Thai in Chiang Mai, Thailand
I am a huge fan of taking cooking classes in the countries I travel to. Even after the one lesson in Barcelona led me to the unfortunate conclusion that I don’t like paella. Hopefully, there would be...
View ArticleVisit the Long Neck Karen Hilltop Tribe in Thailand
Right after a visit to the peculiar White Temple of Chiang Rai, there was a quick stop to northern Thailand’s Karen Long Neck Hilltribe, who are known for boasting spiral brass coils around their...
View ArticleLearn to Make Handicraft Umbrellas in Chiang Mai
After Peter had left Thailand to go back home to California, leaving me a solo traveler, I scheduled some of the bucket list things that I thought he would have little interest in; seeing a ladyboy...
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