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Sky, skyline, trees, bushes and motorists crossing a bridge, Ho Chi Min City, Vietnam.
Budget Motivation

How I Found a New Phone Battery in Ho Chi Minh City

March 29, 2024April 29, 2024 Michael Green

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

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Bills of various currency: Vietnamese Dong, Thai Baht, Cambodian Rial, Lao Kip and US Dollars.
Budget

10 Money Saving Tips For the Frugal World Wanderer

January 31, 2024April 28, 2024 Michael Green

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

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A lit up boat at night, heads for land on the wide Han River, with buildings and city lights along the the body of water.
Budget Food Spirituality

How To Decide on a Favorite Country

November 22, 2023April 26, 2024 Michael Green

Once in a while I get the question: What’s your favorite country? My answer has typically been:, the exact place I was in, or the last new country I had drifted to. Sheer newness elevates optimism. Fresh surroundings breed content and enhanced excitement.

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Lots of luxurisouly thick sand, buildings, people, cloudy sky, sea and hills at the urban My An Beach in Danang, central Vietnam
Budget Food Language Nature

First Impressions of Danang Beach Side

September 17, 2023April 23, 2024 Michael Green

Wide sidewalks, yet long blocks, make Danang a pleasant alternative to Hanoi’s cluttered streets and practically endless buzzing traffic. Hanoi’s Old Quarter thrives in organized chaos while Danang seems to prosper without this potentially-perceived pandemonium. Danang has a wide, luxuriously-long, soft-sandy beach. It

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A view of UNESCO Luang Prabang and the Nam Khan River from atop Phusi Hill in north central Laos.
Budget Culture Food Language Nature Transport

11 Things to Love About Laos

August 31, 2023April 22, 2024 Michael Green

Laos is a land to love. It’s an earth space that can have you feeling like you’ve stepped back in time, while simultaneously, the country is developing at a moderate pace. I don’t believe that Laos is well-known to most of the eight-billion-plus

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At the small night market in Luang Namtha, Laos - How to Haggle in Developing Countries
Budget Culture

How to Haggle in Developing Countries

June 13, 2023April 18, 2024 Michael Green

Buying and haggling in most Asian and other developing countries can be a different experience compared to in Europe and North America. Away from shopping malls, stores, and street food stalls, getting used to haggling in the developing world is something we have

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People and a fruit cart outside in Paksong, Laos. From the post: "Why Learning Numbers Abroad is a Great Idea"
Budget Language Motivation

Why Learning Numbers Abroad is a Great Idea

May 28, 2023April 18, 2024 Michael Green

When drifting in a land not one’s own, it behooves a visitor to take time to think about why learning numbers abroad is a great idea, along with the phrase: How much? Some vagabonds will disagree, as I’ve observed the majority assume that

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Boundary rock.
Budget Culture

Visiting The Khon Kaen National Museum

May 6, 2023April 16, 2024 Michael Green

Visiting the Khon Kaen National Museum in central Isaan, Thailand, implements an interesting look into yesteryear. Archaeology museums give a glimpse into the past by way of time travel. Why not engage the mind in a museum? That was my impromptu mantra when

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The view from above the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Vat Phu in Champasak, southern Laos.
Budget Culture Nature Spirituality Transport

Khmer Hindu Time Travel at the Ruins of Vat Phu

April 11, 2023April 16, 2024 Michael Green

The ruins and grounds of Vat Phu, in Champasak, Laos, are a uniquely aesthetic and ancient Khmer Hindu site. Like many vintage earth spaces, strolling around and absorbing the open-air energy and its ancestral remnants, provides for great pondering. How different was life

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View of the wide Mekong River in Pakse, southern Laos
Budget Language Spirituality

Peaceful Pakse on the Calm Mekong

March 16, 2023April 15, 2024 Michael Green

I’ve been in peaceful Pakse on the calm Mekong for three weeks, with nine days before the 30-day Lao visa expires. The original, but loose plan was to stay in Pakse for the full, in-country time allotment. However, during the first few days,

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