How Do You Decide Where to Travel To During an Extended RTW Trip?
For years, it has been my fantasy to be one of those columnists who dips into her mail pool to answer reader questions… and (dah da da DAH!) that day …
For years, it has been my fantasy to be one of those columnists who dips into her mail pool to answer reader questions… and (dah da da DAH!) that day …
I used to hate whirlwind tourists and avoid any famous site like a high schooler avoids homework. After three months of hardcore Tourist Trail backpacking around Asia, however, I’ve grown …
So what’s so different and charming about this Luang Prabang, Laos, place, anyway? Plenty. Here are some beautiful sights you might see if you were to wander the streets for …
A massive reason why I am keeping this blog (besides an obsessive passion for writing and a rabid quest for fame and fortune) is to keep in close touch with …
Through the eight hours of mountainous twists and turns between Vang Vieng, Laos, and Luang Prabang, we asked ourselves: “Would ‘The Most Beautiful City in Southeast Asia’ live up to …
Crowing roosters prance next to restaurants playing “Family Guy” and “Friends” on loop to zoned-out tourists. Jagged limestone karst mountains reach skyward behind five internet cafes in a row. American …
Throwing up twenty-one times in twenty-four hours stinks. Being able to drag oneself two flights up to the hotel roof, however, and look out at the sawtooth karst mountains and …
What did I do today? In a quest for exercise plus tourism, I covertly tagged along behind various packs of Buddhist monks! We meandered all day through Vientiane, Laos, drinking …
A major goal of this blog is to demonstrate how international travel is far easier and cheaper that most folks think. It is all too easy to get worked into …
In Thailand, you can wake up in your hotel room at one pm (two hours after checkout), stagger to the reception clerk and say, “I think I’ll stay another night, …