Wow, publishing this Photo of the Week post means that a week and a half has gone by since I left New York for my Southeast Asia 4.0 adventure! If this is any indication of how time is going to fly by, these five months will be over in a blink. I’m glad that I have…

Since I left home last June on my Great Escape, I’ve been doing monthly roundups of my adventures. As this blog is not just a resource for other travelers but also my own personal travel diary, I like to take some time to reflect on not just what I did, but how I felt. I also…

Since I left home last June on my Great Escape, I’ve been doing (very delayed!) monthly roundups. Right now I’m picking up the slack! As this blog is not just a resource for other travelers but also my own personal travel diary, I like to take some time to reflect on not just what I did…

So as I’ve been alluding to, I realized fairly quickly after my breakup that staying on the island just wasn’t a possibility at that moment. I took two weeks to pack up our house, sell things, say goodbyes, and make a tentative plan for my next move. Very soon after the breakup I wrote this post…

Originally I wasn’t going to post about the super-amazing goodbye party that was thrown for my friend Freya when she left Koh Tao, because it didn’t seem travel-bloggy enough. But recently I was looking through these photos and reconsidered — the pictures are beautiful, I miss my girls on the island, and basically I just want…

Songkran, also known as Thai New Year, is one of the highlights on the calendar of any Thai, expat or visitor to the country. Songkran traditionally falls on the hottest day of the year in Thailand, and is thus quite appropriately celebrated with a mass, country-wide water fight and street party. For years I had read…