I've been spending many of my days and many of my nights playing pool at my hostel in Chiang Mai. I'm not going to lie: I suck at pool. But every so often I manage to win. And every so often out of those times...
"Valerie," the woman at the front desk said, "the orange one died."
She said it with a smile on her face, in the way that Thais always have a smile on their face. Even when they're telling you that someone you care deeply about is dead.
And...
I took a quick weekend detour from Chiang Mai back to Bangkok to meet up with Jodie — an Australian girl I had met four years ago in Amsterdam and hadn't seen since.
I had been looking forward to catching up with her in Australia,...
"It's easy to be happy," Suwat said, handing over his bicycle. "Just ride, I know the way."
I mounted the bike at 12:30 in the morning and pedaled down the hundreds of years old street. Sometimes I rode slowly, carefully, making small circles, trying not to...
I returned to Thailand, two months later, via a ten hour layover in Singapore where I arrived at one in the morning, found the 24 hour Burger King, and then attempted to sleep in the airport. It was a horrible sleep interrupted by security who...
I ate so much food in the Philippines in my month traveling around the country it's a wonder I still fit in my pants when I got to back to Thailand. With Chinese, Mexican, Spanish, and American influences, Filipino cuisine is richer and meatier than...