I’m tired of traveling. It seems no matter where I go, whatever the distance, it essentially takes a day of travel before beginning to settle into a new place. In SE Asia, travel days can be far from perfect. Instead of starting over
Year: 2024
![Sky, skyline, trees, bushes and motorists crossing a bridge, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Feature-Phone-Post-1200-X-628.jpg)
It was the first night in humongous Ho Chi Minh. I was adrift when it hit me: The phone’s battery is losing its juice really fast. It was almost 10 p.m. I was equipped with a fresh SIM card, but no battery juice
![Pour over coffee, green tea chocolate cake and people inside Brown Coffee, Siem Reap, Cambodia](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Feature-Post-1200-X-628-About.jpg)
For better or worse, likely the latter, I’m addicted to coffee again. In Cambodia, I’ve been drinking precisely one smooth cup in a café every morning for the last two weeks. For many of us humans, caffeine is an elixir, while to some
![Bills of various currency: Vietnamese Dong, Thai Baht, Cambodian Rial, Lao Kip and US Dollars.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Feature-Money-Budget-1200-X-635-ish.jpg)
I often get the question: How do you travel for so long between jobs? When I begin to answer, I realize it’s not so cut and dried. There are at least 10 ideas that want to jump out of my mouth simultaneously. So