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Ahem. Remember this post? Written just about a week or so ago? About how I was saying goodbye to Koh Tao? Guess where I am right now. Well, what can I say. It’s a bloggers’ prerogative to change her mind? To be fair, I never said I wouldn’t come back for another visit (though I did…

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It’s no secret that I’m the unlikeliest fan of Muay Thai boxing. Who would this that this former lazy-bum and current athletics-snubber would fall in fist over gloves for Thailand’s national sport? I’ve written quite a bit about Muay Thai on Koh Tao — from the history and the lore of the fight nights I love…

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My readers who have been to Thailand are surely familiar with the phenomenon of the Thai kathoey, or ladyboy. Those who haven’t, prepare to raise your eyebrows. In a good way. First time visitors to The Kingdom are often taken aback by the elegant beauty of the women that breeze by them on the street, smile…

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As soon as I arrived in Koh Tao, I couldn’t wait to go diving. This is the place where I first breathed underwater, so it will always be a special scuba destination for me. Unfortunately, when I breathlessly asked my friends about the current conditions, they gave me some not so nice faces in response. The…

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Oh, Koh Tao… what a paradox that a place that requires you to more or less live in your bikini also makes it so easy to pack on the pounds? My own very scientific studies have shown that a steady supply of cheap and delicious rice and noodle-based dished, a hard partying lifestyle with nightly buckets…

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If you’ve been with me here for a while, you know there are few places on Earth special to me like Koh Tao. Koh Tao has been a home to me, the only place outside of the state of New York to ever really earn that spot in my heart. So it was inevitable, really, that…

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As you know if you’ve been following my Photo of the Week posts, I’ve spent the last six weeks in Thailand… and I have another 13 weeks left here in Southeast Asia! I’m so excited to start sharing this trip to my favorite place on earth with you. While this will mostly be a solo journey…

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