When drifting in a land not one’s own, it should behoove a visitor to take the time to learn the numbers along with the phrase
Category: Advice
Travel hacks, life hacks, and worthwhile shortcuts.
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
To call Luang Namtha a ghost town would be an exaggeration. However, in a country of under eight million people, the town has fewer than
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
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
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
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
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
Lake Atitlán is a magically wondrous body of water that Mayans have surrounded for millennia. The following anecdotes are based on the subjective and spontaneous
If I travel to England or Ireland and look at the signs and names around me, I can often remember something without giving it much,