Three years after my first amazing trip to Krabi, Thailand I found myself back on a longtail boat cruising the Andaman Sea with my girlfriend Betina.
The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you. To do this, you first need to overcome the protective habits of home and open yourself up to unpredictability. Rolf Potts, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel Arriving at Tiger Cave Temple – Krabi Tiger Cave Temple is known locally as Wat Tham Seua to Thai people…
Well, I am not a coffee connoisseur by any means, however, I spent quite a lot of time in many Chiang Mai coffee shops, because there are just so many creative, cool & hip cafés there. This is not a “Top 10” or “Best of” list but…
Kopi Luwak – World’s Most Expensive Coffee Yes, it’s true, and before you begin to moan and gag, think for a moment, about what you might be missing, especially if you are a true coffee lover. Well, there must be a reason why people would pay a lot of money for coffee that is apparently extracted from the feces of the civet, a mammal common to many parts of Southeastern Asia. It sounds totally gross,…
Happiness is something that comes into our lives through doors we don’t even remember leaving open.
-Rose Lane
Instead of flying down to Phuket, from Chiang Mai, I took the scenic route by land and stopped in Sukhothai which I actually didn’t really know much about at the time. I remembered seeing a picture of the ancient ruins…
Sometimes it’s a little better to travel than to arrive.” ~ Robert M. Pirsig, Author of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Three Days in Bangkok Noph and Pet welcomed me to Bangkok for the second time in 2013. After over 24 hours of flights and layovers, I was totally jet-lagged but so excited at the same time! Bangkok (BKK) is such a vibrant city. I only spent a few days…
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – Cesare Pavese Bukit to Batik to Ubud and Monkey Forest Sanctuary After the Christmas and New Years holidays…
– Sa Nae Doi Luang – Charm of Big Mountain – Chiang Dao – On my way to Chiang Dao, I passed this coffee shop/restaurant and ordered probably the best tasting Watermelon shake I had in Thailand. Every fruit shake I ordered was great anywhere I went, but they definitely added something to this that made it even better or maybe I was just thirsty. Either way it was delicious. On the road to Chiang…
Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark – Wat Tham Pha Plong – My trip to Chiang Dao included a peaceful…