I’ve got some money floating in Kiva. The last person I loaned it to has paid it back and so I’ve loaned it out once more to this person: Kiva is way cool. It’s not an investment system, use prosper if you want that (www.prosper.com) but it’s a cool way to keep some money tucked [...]

Times when a 100 Baht (US$3) watch will break: 1. When taking it off 2. When looking at the time 3. When wondering what time it is Times a farang (westerner) will get a sunburn: 1. When going outside without sunscreen 2. When going outside with sunscreen 2. When going outside 3. When thinking about [...]

I’m in South Korea now, Incheon International Airport. It’s nice. There are a few internet lounges around and after searching for the best exchange rate (all the currency exchange windows throughout the airport give different exchange rates) I finally paid my 3,000 Won (or about US$3) for 1 hour of internet. Of course, that 1 [...]

Well, here it is, 40 hours of travel ahead of us (with a 12 hour layover in Korea) and our last day to shop and hang in Thailand. We discovered something very interesting yesterday. We decided not to go back to the backpacker area of Banglampoo and instead stay near the Skytrain so we could [...]

If there’s one thing I can say to someone visiting Thailand, it’s this: Walk. Walk as much as you can. We’ve been here almost 10 days and we have only taken 2 taxi rides, one from the airport on the first night and one back to Banglamphoo district from the train station–after walking from the [...]