Trivandrum After saying goodbye to Chiang Mai, I started a 24-hour travel day: a quick flight to BKK followed by a six-hour layover, a 3-hour flight to Sri Lanka followed by a 9-hour layover (most of which was spent sleeping
Kerala
March 5, 2015
Another Chiang Mai Winter
January 30, 2015
After a lot of fast-paced traveling over the last five months, I was craving some time to slow down and be productive with all my backlogs before starting the next adventure. Ayu is going through yoga teacher training this month,
Against Football?
January 25, 2015
With a week to go until the Super Bowl and news headlines filled with stories of saggy balls, this seems like a good time to take a departure from my normal travel blogging and write about an excellent football-related book
More Bangkok, More Islands
January 12, 2015
Bangkok A few days after seeing Becca off, I linked up with a different group of friends (all from the States) in Bangkok for a few weeks through Thailand. Several had never been to Bangkok before, so they had the
Bangkok, Cambodia, and Thai Islands
January 11, 2015
Bangkok Becca, Michael, and I flew into BKK on a pleasant Friday afternoon and the two of them were immediately introduced to the urban jungle of Bangkok as we suffered through the first of many hour-long taxi rides through the
Chiang Mai: Halloween, Lantern Festivals, and the Bruggmans
January 9, 2015
The last two months have been filled with lots of fun times with friends, some relatively quick traveling, and many a poor Internet connection, resulting in zero blog updates. Now that I have time and a normal Internet connection, I
Bali, Gili, and Brisbane
November 2, 2014
After the conclusion of the bloody (and delicious!) chaos that was the Vegetarian Festival, I stuck around Phuket Town for the weekend to go through all my photos and write up the story for the blog. My original plan was
Phuket Vegetarian Festival (a.k.a. HOLY FUCKING SHIT)
October 5, 2014
Where to start with this one? The story of my attendance at this festival actually goes back almost a year. During my last trip through Southeast Asia, I had read about the vegetarian festival, but after it had already happened.
HK ‘N BKK
October 2, 2014
It’s not lost on me that the two cities I visited initially are currently epicenters of political friction. Admittedly, Thailand has been quiet lately since the junta has oppressed the country into mostly silence, but not long ago there were
Southeast Asia Part II
September 28, 2014
Before transitioning into a brief discussion of my return to Southeast Asia, I think a summer debriefing is in order. Total travel stats for my Murrikan summer: 19 cities in 14 states/provinces in 2 countries, 10 flights, 9 train trips,