My pink taxi glided through the trafficless city of Bangkok. It was 530 am, the nexus of the netherworld and the day dwellers. The bargirls huddled with their customers on the street slurping noodles and gulping their last beer before turning in after a long night. Intermixed were the street cleaners and the food hawkers [...]
Big Tiger. Admit it. You slow down when you see a car accident. Crane your neck. Your morbid curiosity. I just spent the day at a prison. Bang Kwang. AKA Big Tiger. The prison eats men alive. The notorious and brutal prison in Bangkok. I have taken the tour at Alcatraz. I was enthralled with the [...]
I have spent multiple months in Bangkok, but there is never a shortage of options to stay. Agoda is listing over 1300 hotels in Bangkok alone. Options range from various hostels on Kao Sarn Road the backpacker nexus or grab a $400 room at the Mandarin Hotel. Anyone who has spent time in Bangkok realizes it [...]
Travel Gear For The Road. How many devices are you carrying? Laptop, tablet, iPhone, camera? Even more? I know for me it is a real hassle keeping all these devices charged. I bring several items to help keep my batteries fully charged and make my life a little easier. The more gear I carry, the more [...]
Stay In Touch How do you stay in touch with everyone back home and not break the bank? This is what I do when I am overseas. Step One In regard to your cell phone, go on “seasonal standby” when you leave the country. This means you will maintain your cell phone number and will not [...]
Save Money Overseas. I imagine you don’t want to go on your next international jaunt with a several thousand dollars stuffed in your pocket. You don’t want to take the risk of getting rolled on your first day and be penniless and begging for money at the Bangkok Western Union. Traveler’s checks are so 1980s. So [...]
I grabbed my Dad and informed him that even in the Arctic Circle there were Armenians. Svalbard, an isolated Norwegian island, lies in the Arctic Ocean between 74 and 81 degrees north latitude. During the summer the sun does not set for 99 days, and darkness reigns for 84 days in the winter. The 3,000 [...]
Possibly the best travel book ever written, Shantaram. Could this be the best travel book ever? The setting is in India and it is a novel inspired by true events. After storming through this 1000 page tomb, I was left both fulfilled and empty. I reread the book in its entirety to capture the magic [...]
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