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
Tag: coffee
![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
![Mural that shows different coffee brewing methods.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Mural-Coffee-Brewing-Forms-Resized-Blog.jpg)
While Vietnam’s coffee allure may have pushed me into consuming more caffeine than ever, it also nudged me to give it up, at least for the last 19 days. I have no immediate intention on stopping this cold-turkey endeavor. Still, the abstinance could
![The White Temple or Wat Rong Khun in Chiang Rai, Thailand](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Resized-White-Temple-Wat-Rong-Khun-2.jpg)
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 temple drifting and coffee sipping. During a week in this laid-back town, I walked to places of interest.
![The cathedral and birds at the Parque Central or Central Park, Guatemala City, Guatemala.](https://earthdrifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/10/Parque-Central-Resized.jpg)
Because I’d read more bad than good about Guatemala City, I loosely considered skipping it. However, I’d come to realize that la capital is a terrific travel destination. Like many travelers, upon arriving, I took a shuttle straight to Antigua and got to