This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Alexa, an American expat who was recently working and living in Marrakech.  Morocco was a chaotic, overwhelming and amazing place to live for the three months I called it home. It isn’t for everyone but it has tons of personality and I loved living there. I did a work away […]

Whenever I go somewhere new I like to read about it. Ideally, I would read up on a place before I get there to get a better sense of what I’m getting into, but more often than not I end up reading while am traveling or after I’ve gotten back home and want to make […]

One thing you’ll quickly notice after spending some time in Chiang Mai is that there is a thriving yoga and wellness community here. There’s something about the combination of the laid-back lifestyle, sun everyday, gorgeous natural surroundings, a Buddhist culture where even the wildest high school students will sit still in silent meditation, and abundance of […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Julie, an American expat who’s currently working and living in London.  It’s getting to be summer in London. The days are getting long, the nights are short. It’s warm enough out for the windows to be cracked during the night, which inevitably means I am woken early by the […]

As someone who had never had a pet before last year, I always thought pet-friendly indoor spaces were sort of strange. Frankly, I still do, but on a lazy Sunday when we wanted to go out for a long lunch I was intrigued about a dog-friendly cafe in Chiang Mai I had read about – […]

This week’s guest post for the ‘Day-to-Day’ series comes from Rebecca, an Australian expat who’s currently working and living in Dubai.  I live out of the popular expat hubs of downtown and Dubai Marina, in a residential area called Al Barsha. It is less crowded, there aren’t any towering skyscrapers and it just has a more ‘local’ feel […]

In 1999 National League for Democracy leader and Nobel Prize winner, Aung San Suu Kyi, called for a tourism boycott in Burma believing that money spent by visitors would be supporting the military regime and show international support for its practices. In November 2010, right before I first moved to Thailand, she called for a lifting of the […]

“…Then, a golden mystery upheaved itself on the horizon, a beautiful winking wonder that blazed in the sun, of a shape that was neither Muslim dome nor Hindu temple-spire…The golden dome said, ‘This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land that one knows about’.” – Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East In […]

In just one week I took about 1,000 photos of Burma. While I finish working on some posts about the country here a few of the thousand that seemed to epitomize what I saw of the “Golden Land”. (You can see even more on my Instagram feed!) As the most important Buddhist site in Burma, […]

Tonight I walked down a street in Chiang Mai I’ve been down a hundred times before. I’ve been down it a hundred times because I’ve now been based here for four years. It’s the longest time I’ve had the same “home” since high school and feels like a lifetime ago that I was working in Seattle and […]