As much as I loved showing my family around Koh Tao, to me that island is home… and I wanted a vacation! So we planned on rounding out my parents’ visit with a few days in Koh Samui, the big sister of the Gulf Coast Thai islands. Koh Samui is the largest and most developed of…

Soooo. We’re back to catching up on the Monthly Roundups that I dropped the ball on. Since we are fast approaching the dawn of the Month 5 Roundup, I better wrap up 3 and 4 here.  So now for a little Alex in Wanderland time machine action… Months 3 and 4 were blissfully spent living the…

Thailand has these pesky little visa rules designed to make working illegally, or simply beach bumming indefinitely, much more difficult for foreigners. While I understand their motives, frankly, it’s not working (unless you are an immigration official reading this blog, in which case, I did all that flyering for love of handing out multi colored leaflets…

That whole voting thing we did to pick last week’s Photo of the Week was really fun. (And thanks to all that voted. You guys really like seeing me get the beat down!) Should we make it a regular feature? Let’s put it to a poll! (Ha.) This week was a close one considering I photographed…