Oh The Mustang Nero Hotel, you are so strange. And I love every bit of you. Continuing my affinity with boutique hotels in Bangkok, I stayed at a small, 8-room place that’s only able to be booked through Air BnB (create an account here and get $30 (950 baht) in credit!). If you like giant […]

While Chiang Mai is a relatively small city, it still is home to a number of different areas and neighborhoods each with their own look and feel…and that go well beyond just the Old City and Nimmanhaemin where tourists and digital nomads congregate. Though they are central areas, I’ve read several posts that only highlight these […]

In the past year several travel bloggers who I follow or am lucky enough to know personally have published books that are well worth a read, especially if you’re a female thinking about traveling or living abroad. What’s particularly interesting about the four books below is that, while all four writers spend time in some […]

The more I go to Bangkok the more I’m convinced it’s one of the best places in the world for boutique hotels and luxury accommodation. There is such a range of options in the city that you can easily find something to fit your personal style or location preference. Plus, the value for price that luxury hotels […]

I love learning about companies doing cool stuff while supporting the communities they operate in. A few months ago I was contacted by Socialgiver, which gave me the idea for this post highlighting some of the socially responsible companies and organizations travelers can support while traveling through Thailand – from where to drink coffee to […]

I’ve been meaning to publish this post for a while now but kept putting it off thinking that as soon as I posted it saying I had been riding a motorbike in Thailand for years without any problems that I would get in an accident. Well, I got hit by another motorbike a couple weeks ago (nothing […]

I’ve been asked a few times recently about what my hobbies are, and I haven’t really known what to respond. I’ve also been asked why I like living in Chiang Mai so much, which is both a very simple and complicated question to answer. I think I recent one-night trip answers both however. My professional work and […]

This morning, a Sunday, I woke up in a basic, concrete beach bungalow at a dive shop on the tiny island Koh Lipe in southern Thailand as the friend I’m staying with got up to go take customers out diving. I took my sweet time getting ready then walked a little ways along the beach […]

When I first lived abroad after college then when I first backpacked around Southeast Asia, my budget was tight. I wanted to squeeze everything I could out of every dollar, pound, euro, baht, rupee, whatever, and make my money stretch as far as possible. I did a pretty good job at it. I also skipped […]

I’m always surprised by how quickly things appear and disappear in Thailand. You’ll go to a busy noodle shop for years and all of the sudden, one day, it will be gone with no trace that a restaurant even existed or you’ll be walking along a road you often drive down and suddenly realize there’s […]