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Inflight Slippers and Homelessness: What It’s Like to Come Home After a Long Time Abroad
During the 24 hour flight back to Thailand from my holiday visit home in the States, I had a jarring identity crisis. It’s possible this was caused by some combination of claustrophobia, jet lag, or the dangerous combination of drinking coffee and wine simultaneously.
7 Ways a Menu Can Tell You if the Restaurant Is a Tourist Trap
In a previous post, I offered seven tips on how to eat where the locals eat. While that post is an excellent guide to point you in the right direction to a local trattoria that hasn’t been spoiled by an onslaught of tourists, it did not provide the final determining factor on how you can decide if the restaurant is a tourist trap.
7 Things to Do When It Rains on Your Vacation
As much as we hope for perfect weather on our vacation, Mother Nature is beyond our control, and it’s bound to rain on our plans. It’s easy to get frustrated and allow the rain clouds to ruin our vacation.
20 Ancient Ruins That Will Take You Back in Time
Every person travels for a reason, be it food, weather or nature. Some people, however, are interested in uncovering the past — they want to know the civilizations that inhabited a specific place and the influence they had on its culture and landscape.
7 Tips for Having an Awesome Songkran (The World’s Biggest Water Festival)
Songkran is the exciting, energetic Thai holiday that can be described as a days-long water festival. For those who haven’t played Songkran before, it most closely resembles a countrywide water fight. Held in mid-April, the festival celebrates the traditional Thai New Year, and is most famous for the throwing of water and smearing of paste…
16 Hidden Vacation Gems the Locals Don’t Want You to Know About
If you want a relaxing vacation away from the crowds and an authentic experience without all the holiday-goer cheese, here are 16 places where you can blend in with the locals on your next vacation.
7 Best Places to Scuba Dive
There are some veteran divers that spend their whole lives searching out the best place to scuba dive – somewhere filled with diverse species of tropical fish, perfectly preserved coral, and interesting land formations to swim through.
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