For those of you new to our blog, here’s some background (this stint began March 2016): We leased out our home in the United States for two years with the intent of seeing as much of the world as possible. ‘Seeing’ being defined as hanging out (our term for cultural interaction), usually off the beaten…
Category: Thailand
Chiang Mai, Thailand: Water, Water Everywhere
Most of you who know me know that I don’t like big cities. There are a few exceptions; Buenos Aires, Boston and, recently, the Old Quarter in Hanoi, Vietnam. Bangkok, however, isn’t one of them. We successfully avoided Bangkok on the way into Thailand, but our plans went awry on our exit and we wound…
Chiang Mai & Pai, Thailand: A Land of Street Food and Grafitti (Art Nouveau?)
This blogging thing is hard. I mean trying to find an interesting angle, a new twist on places that have been visited by millions and written about by thousands isn’t easy. So, with this blog about Chiang Mai and Pai, both located in Northern Thailand, you won’t see temples, ancient forts, or elephants. Instead, we’ll…
Thailand: Power-Touring
For the most part, we consider ourselves travelers rather than tourists. You know, the constant wanderer with no real plans or an agenda. We like to settle into a place, get its pulse, become regulars at shops and restaurants, and then decide which sights to see or if we’d prefer to move on to someplace…