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by Jonathan Look | Sep 15, 2013 | Adventure, Thailand, Travel
There are just some things in life you don’t see every day. A few days ago I took a little trip around Chiang Mai, Thailand on the roads locals call the “Samoeng Loop”. It is a beautiful ride along steep winding roads up into the nearby mountains. You travel in cool...
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by Jonathan Look | Jun 6, 2013 | Adventure, People, Photography, Thailand, Travel
T. S. Eliot said, “April is the cruelest month” and, although I am sure he wasn’t talking about Songkran in Chiang Mai, Thailand, April is the most sweltering month here in Southeast Asia with temperatures often rising to over 100 degrees Fahrenheit. As temperatures...
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by Jonathan Look | May 18, 2013 | Adventure, Buddhism, Street Food, Thailand
The “Big Smoke”, “City of Angels”, “Venice of the East”, “Sin City of Asia” and numerous other nicknames attempt to encapsulate Bangkok but it is simply; not that simple. It is all of those things and more. It is a concept that is totally undefinable by looking at it...
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by Jonathan Look | Apr 26, 2013 | Adventure, Buddhism, Philosophy, Thailand, Travel
2012 Yee Peng Lantern Festival More images from the 2014 Yee Peng Lantern Festival The Lantern Festival in Chiang Mai is one of the most magical and beautiful festivals held in Asia, indeed anywhere in the world. Serendipitously I had arrived in Chiang Mai, the former...
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by Jonathan Look | Mar 24, 2013 | Adventure, Buddhism, Philosophy, Thailand, Travel
One of the most highly rated activities around Chiang Mai is the “Flight of the Gibbon”, Thailand’s longest zip line canopy tour. I have been ziplining before in Honduras so I pretty much knew what to expect. Admittedly it is thrilling to “fly” overland tethered in a...
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by Jonathan Look | Mar 24, 2013 | Adventure, Buddhism, Thailand, Travel
Loi Krathong is an ancient annual celebration in Thailand that takes place on the evening of the twelfth full moon in the traditional Thai lunar calendar. In the west, this usually falls in November. When I fortuitously arrived in Chiang Mai in November I was told...
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by Jonathan Look | Mar 19, 2013 | Adventure, Thailand, Travel
I had never been to Asia before and here I am in Chiang Mai, Thailand with the intention of spending a year exploring the area. It has been a long flight from Houston via Atlanta and Seoul. I guess it could be a bit of adrenaline working in my favor but I am not jet...
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by Jonathan Look | Mar 15, 2013 | Adventure, Minimalism, Retirement, Thailand, Travel
I had been living in Mexico for a little over a year, and it was time to continue the adventure in another venue. I knew when I started this “slow travel” retirement dream that I would get attached to places and not want to leave. San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas,...
