One of the things I love most about traveling is witnessing how people live around the world. Born with an over-active imagination, I tend to romanticize cultures before I experience them, pining away after fairy-tale-like foreign lands. As a child, with my limited world-view I used to envision Asian countries as places full of dragon […]
Thailand
Life-Lessons from Elephants
I watched the lumps of elephant dung float by my legs and couldn’t have been happier. Lawan rolled over, turning belly side up as she indulged in her daily bath. I shrieked in delight and struggled to hang on to her massive body. Loud trumpeting and sparkling sprays of water filled the air as the […]