Lillie Marshall

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, …

One of the most hilarious aspects of teaching is having the opportunity to absorb the latest teen slang. It’s endlessly entertaining! In the Boston Public School in which I worked …

Across from the glass case holding the uniform John McCain was wearing when he was shot down (pictured, below), Hoa Lo Prison in Hanoi has a sign that reads as …

The accompanying (rather unrelated) photos for this article are street scenes from Hanoi, Vietnam (particularly motorcycle sights, which never cease to amaze me) and views of Hanoi’s Temple of Literature. …

Here’s a deeply foolish idea: Check yourself into a hip, uber-popular Backpacker’s hostel when you are exhausted beyond belief and really just need to sleep. Screw being social with nubile …

Do you like wildlife? Do you like the sea? Do you like primates hurtling at you as you try to swim in the tranquil ocean? Then head to “Monkey Beach” …