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I had a lot of reasons for leaving my career and home to travel around the world in August of 2009, and one of them was a vision of starting …
Learn what it is like to travel in Laos as a solo female traveler, including a Mekong riverboat ride!
I had a lot of reasons for leaving my career and home to travel around the world in August of 2009, and one of them was a vision of starting …
It was hour nine of day two on the Mekong river boat in Laos. I was deep into a crossword puzzle, lying half off my seat, feet high on the …
The best quotes from “Tropic of Cancer” book by Henry Miller to show why it’s perfect backpacking travel literature to bring and read on a trip abroad.
I cursed foully when my friends electronically forced me to take the two day riverboat up the Mekong. “You’ve taken every other form of transport!” hollered one chum. “Another bus …
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 …