Seems like only yesterday when I decided to sell my business and make the move to Thailand. After a couple of trips to the country, I was certain Thailand was my Utopia. Years later, older and slightly wiser, I’ve concluded there is no Utopia – at least not in the physical sense. Not to burst […]
Working overseas
Experiences working overseas
I moved to Japan last year to teach English at a Tokyo public high school. I came armed with a few phrase books, some sound cultural advice, and an outfit for every occasion. Tokyo is a major world center. It’s multi-cultural. It’s diverse. Surely there would be expatriates to befriend, little pieces […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
Food is the hardest thing to stay disciplined with when it comes to staying on budget. I battle with my stomach every day to pass up the chance to eat at a culturally rich-looking restaurant in order to maintain the bank balance I will need to continue my […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
Travel medical insurance is what you’ll need if you’ll be traveling around a lot. If you are going to become an expatriate and live overseas permanently, then you’ll need some type of permanent insurance.
In many countries, you’ll be able to receive medical services for just a little money, […]
Living Overseas
Where and How to Live Around the World
You decided to sell everything you own – or almost everything – and move to the Land of Smiles. Traveling light, you toss all your clothes into a duffle bag, cram your suitcase with books, DVD’s, photos, and other personal belongs. You carefully slide your laptop into […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
“This is Burma, and it will be quite unlike any land you know about…”
Rudyard Kipling, Letters from the East (1898)
As Kipling noted, Burma is a rare country in every sense of the word. A journey to the country is akin to traveling in a time machine, transporting the […]
Society and Culture
When in Rome…
Thai women are renowned the world over for their beauty, grace, femininity, and sexuality. They have that certain something that makes them alluring to men and their diminutive stature makes them doll like, while at the same time, womanly.
If you are interested in meeting regular Thai women though, where and how […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
The Intercontinental City Stars Cairo is a hotel situated in the Cairo City Stars complex, which consists of two hotels, an office tower, and the City Centre shopping center. With almost 800 rooms and suites, five restaurants, casino, health club, business center, wireless network and ballroom with […]
Traveling Overseas
How-to and Where-to Travel Around the World
This is an older story – but one of our favorites from a trip to Cambodia back before it was a “mainstream” travel destination. We have heard that the boats running from Phnom Penh to Siem Reap are not as regular anymore and sometimes stop completely. But […]
Reports From the Road
Worldwide Dispatches From Independent Travelers on The Road
I have to differ with James in the “Fishing in Pattaya” article (I am one of the “buddies” he mentions). James says that “if you have been to one beach tourist town in Southeast Asia, you have pretty much seen them all”. Now I’m […]