It’s hard to pick a follow up to last week’s whale shark, and in all honesty we didn’t do much exciting this week. But this photo reflects our week, like I always try to do with this project: we worked a lot during the day and chilled out a lot at night. Here I’m wearing my…

So I’m bending the rules a bit again for this week’s Photo of the Week. I think you’ll agree it’s worth it. Week 10 of my Photo of the Week project will go down in history as being the week I finally saw a whale shark! I’m going to write much more about this unreal experience…

What I Did: A handful of nights in Bangkok here and there and over a month in Koh Tao. Overall: Koh Tao is a diver’s paradise and the perfect place to learn. You’ll be overwhelmed with options for where to do your open water, don’t feel pressured to sign up beforehand or on the ferry, where touts will…

This is the point in the story where I was meant to be writing a post describing the life changing experience I had over the past five weeks in two so different Southeast Asian countries. Instead, you can expect that post in three more weeks when I get one more country under my belt! That’s right…

The time had come: my Dad was soon arriving in Bangkok so we could start our journey to Cambodia. While I thought when my time at the clinic was up I might head to Koh Phangan, or maybe up to northern Thailand, I ended up staying in Koh Tao until the night before I was due…

Scuba diving was not something I always dreamed of doing. In fact, it was something I would have been content to avoid for all the rest of my days, had I not ended up on Koh Tao. I’ve seen Jaws. I’ve seen Open Water. In fact, open water has long been my greatest fear. Which makes…