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How I Traveled From Laos To Thailand for Under Three Dollars

January 13, 2023January 13, 2023 Michael Green

It was day 30 of 30 of my Lao stamp validity. The wonderful woman at the In Touch Guesthouse in Vientiane had said that she could get me a door-to-door drop off from the guesthouse all the way to the customs office

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Infinite Earth Art: Temples of Luang Prabang

January 1, 2023January 3, 2023 Michael Green

Temple gazing has never been high on my travel to-do list. Like so many people traveling in SE Asia, I have taken the stance of: ‘Another temple, how many temples can I see?’ However, as humans, we have the open-minded ability to

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Luang Namtha: Why I Spent a Week in a Virtual Ghost Town

December 19, 2022January 3, 2023 Michael Green

To call Luang Namtha a ghost town would be an exaggeration. However, in a country of under eight million people, the town has less than 40,000 inhabitants, and zero crowds. The small size, quiet streets and personal space is what I liked

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Temple Drifting and Coffee Sipping in Chiang Rai

December 12, 2022January 4, 2023 Michael Green

The smallish city of Chiang Rai, not to be confused with its bigger cousin of Chiang Mai, (187 km south), is a good city for wandering. During a week or so in this laid-back town, I was able to walk to many

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Thai Sounds With Food Words: Memory Enhancement Through Imagination

November 22, 2022January 14, 2023 Michael Green

After virtual teleportation up and across the grand globe, and finally touching down in Southeast Asia’s humongous hub of Bangkok, I was unsurprisingly bombarded with the Thai language. Bangkok is a city of around 15 million where there is no shortage of

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Wiped Out After A Journey Across the Earth

November 9, 2022January 14, 2023 Michael Green

Traveling across the earth threw me for a loop. There was not a thought about being on the receiving end of extreme jet lag. When traveling across time zones, odd fatigue and not being able to sleep at night are often a

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Guatemala City: A Terrific Travel Destination

October 15, 2022January 14, 2023 Michael Green

Because I had read more bad than good about Guatemala City, I loosely considered skipping it. However, I would come to realize that la capital is a positively different entity compared to the rest of the land. Like many travelers, upon arriving

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Refurbished Former US School Buses: The Pulse of a Nation

October 5, 2022January 16, 2023 Michael Green

As the subcontinental railway is the pulse of colorful India, the fixed-up former school buses from north of Mexico are the man-made vibration of greenery-laden Guatemala. Shortly after arriving at the Guatemala City airport, I was on a 45-minute shuttle bus bound

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Journey to Fuentes Georgina: Geothermal Pools in the Guatemalan Highlands

September 23, 2022January 16, 2023 Michael Green

The early morning Journey to Fuentes Georgina started from the Hotel Lar Antiqua beside the Parque Central. After a cool 20-minute power walk I was at La Rotonda and soon thereafter on a refurbished school bus bound for the town of Zunil.

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Mayan Time Travel at the Ruins of Zaculeu

September 17, 2022January 16, 2023 Michael Green

Unplanned until the evening before, I found myself wandering the grounds of the smaller than average, ancient Mayan site of Zaculeu, in Huehuetenango. Because Guatemala’s second biggest city of Quetzaltenango hosts a huge celebration for the country’s Independence Day, I was forced

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