This week was all about the water. I spent three days filming underwater movies, one day fun diving with an internet-to-real-life friend, and the rest of the time working furiously on my computer to catch up with all my freelancing work. I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that today I had to call in sick to…

Has a week gone by this quickly? Currently I’m back in Bangkok spending my last few days with my NYC bestie Zoe and her Bangkok-based boyfriend Tom, and it’s wonderful. However, the earlier part of the week was spent in Koh Tao having one of the most tumultuous weeks of my travels (life?) thanks to an…

This week’s travel Photo of the Week reveals that Christmas season has arrived, even here in Buddhist Thailand. I’m leaving in a few days to go pick my family up in Bangkok for the holidays, and I couldn’t be more excited. You won’t be reading about it for a while though, because I have tons more…

This was one of those weeks where selecting a Photo of the Week was super hard, and not because I was having trouble narrowing it down or something. It’s because I HAVEN’T LEFT MY APARTMENT IN A WEEK! But the good news is, I’m not bothered in the slightest. I just had seven weeks of fun…

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…

To all my non diving readers out there, I apologize, because this is two diving posts in a row! Don’t worry- we’ll be back on dry land soon :) It all started long ago when Mark and I spotted some super mysterious posters around Koh Tao encouraging us to “experience the wonder” of something “like the…