A recurring question/conversation I’ve had with other travelers is about why they don’t see many American backpackers. We’re definitely out there, but compared to countries that seem to send out young travelers in droves – ahem England, Australia and Israel – we just don’t compete. Whenever this topic pops up I get the impression that […]
Archives for March 2012
Sawadee-ka from “The Most Splendid City of Culture”: Chiang Mai
For having such an unassuming nature, I think Chiang Mai takes the cake for superfluous city slogans….although it does have a lot to be proud of. Chiang Mai is Bangkok’s little, nicer, cleaner, smaller, better, prettier sister in the north. (I’m clearly not biased at all.) Called the “Rose of the North” or “The Most […]
What am I doing here?
What do you do when you don’t know what you want to do? Wondering, “What I’m doing here?”, in Jaisalmer, India After graduating college I was fortunate. I had no student loans (thank you parents and incredibly proactive financial planning…) and fell into a good job using my public relations degree. Yet I was in […]