Traveling is a learning process and if you are a frequent traveler you learn little “hacks” that can make life so much easier. This list is ever evolving, changeable based on length of travel, location and circumstances, and it is also full of opinion and personal...
Rescue Dogs in Their Crates at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport About to Go Home for the First Time Just before Jon and I left for our road trip across Canada and the United States I came across a plea on Facebook from one of my favourite charities, the Soi Dog...
Evil Mud Men of the Dansai Ghost Festival in Thailand See also: Photo: Wat Mahathat UNESCO World Heritage Site It is Yee Peng Again! Dansai Ghost Festival All kinds of spirits come out to play at the Ghost Festival in Dansai,Thailand. Also known as Phi Ta Khon, a...
Ready for Whale watching in Tadoussac, Canada Road trips have been a part of American culture since the invention of the automobile and the construction of roads connecting faraway places. I have always been fascinated by the being on the open road, combining a little...
Last spring, I was able to travel with La Vaiyakone of Soap4Life through several hill tribe villages in Northern Laos. Soap4Life is is a small hands-on humanitarian organization dedicated to improving hygiene, developing economic opportunities for impoverished...
Narrow Path Encountered While Hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge What is Tiger Leaping Gorge? Many publications have said that hiking Tiger Leaping Gorge, the iconic 24-kilometer trek along Jinsha River, a tributary of the Yangtze River in Yunnan, China is one of the...
Recently, while having a late lunch one afternoon in Old Town Dali, Sarah and I started up a conversation with a couple of guys enjoying a few beers at an adjacent table. One of them was an expat American living in China and the other was a local cormorant fisherman...
Sapa Vietnam Rice Terrace The beauty of the ancient rice terraces of Vietnam’s Sapa district was unknown to westerners until the 1880s. In fact, as near as anyone can piece together, it was largely unknown to all but the hill tribes that inhabited the area up...
