July 16, 2012
Obligatory what I ate (this time) in Thailand post.
Photos of what I ate in Thailand....
July 15, 2012
Scenes from Chiang Mai.
I am an awesome carton of unicorn milk. It was a little awkward being back in a place where I knew I'd be seeing a guy who had slept with me and then ignored me every day. I kept trying to work up the nerve to...
July 13, 2012
The blue box blues.
Sometimes a friend mentions that she is craving something. And sometimes it makes you crave it too. And so you go to three different stores until you can find it. Get way too giddy when you walk down a store aisle and see it staring back at...
July 11, 2012
A Chiang Mai Fourth of July.
Fourth of July at Coney Island has become my tradition. I wake up early, make my way to Surf and Stillwell. Stand in the heat for hours. Witness more than a few people who have come to be friends scarf down double digits worth of...
July 9, 2012
How to celebrate one year on the road.
1. Wake up in a guy's bed. Have some pretty nice sex. 2. Get breakfast with your guy and some of his friends. Again talk about the differences between British and American English. 3. Eat ice cream....
July 7, 2012
Falling.
All I wanted was dinner. Scratch. Dinner and wifi. That was my plan. My mission. That was what I was looking for when I was walking down the street on one of my first nights in Pai. I certainly wasn't looking to meet a guy. In...
July 5, 2012
You’re not beautiful. You’re not sexy.
Johnny came into the bar one night. He was older, Thai, with thick black dreadlocks. He sat next to me and took out his guitar, playing with a cigarette perched between the strings. It was, maybe, 1 or so in the morning. I hadn't been drinking...
June 29, 2012
I’m engaged! (Again…)
Finally, the moment I've been waiting for my entire life happened (for the third time on this trip...
June 27, 2012
Bicycling to Mor Paeng Waterfall in Pai, Thailand.
Renting a bicycle to visit Mor Paeng Waterfall in Pai, Thailand, seems, in theory, like a pleasant way to spend a day. Until, after maybe ten minutes of peddling, when you realize that you'll be traveling uphill the entire way. Until your ass hurts so much...