Travel Lesson Learned : Kanchanaburi

Travel Lesson : Go with the flow In a belch of black smoke, my first local bus rattled out of the busy station and to tell the truth, I had no idea where I was going…. I had arrived in Bangkok only 3 days before Chinese New Year in 2006.  The city was mad (even [...]

Unrest in Thailand

In case you hadn’t heard, more civil unrest has popped up in Thailand at the main airport. I find this very disturbing, first because Thailand is one of my favorite places, and second because I have lots of friends living there or in route there for the holidays. So far there have been a few [...]

Thailand Travel Tips

Khao San Road – backpacker ghetto of the universe The bad news: My fingers are permanently gnarled into keyboard mode, and they twitch at night when I’m trying to sleep. I only wonder what phantom code they are typing. My carpal has definitely been tunneled out….somewhere there is a surgeon holding a buzzsaw and licking [...]

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