Make that 100 days

In my last post, I mentioned that music has been banned throughout Thailand since the death of the King’s sister on Jan. 1.
I mentioned this because I truly could not imagine something like this happening in the States or in any other Western nation. If our president was assassinated, you could play any song you [...]

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Three days in Laos

Cities, as a general rule, are formed for a reason. A city may form near an important body of water, at the junction of major roads or rail lines, on the outskirts of a larger city that got too crowded or too expensive.
Vang Vieng, Laos, is a different kind of city. As far as I [...]

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Koh Phangnan and the boat/truck that nearly killed me

I don’t remember much about the New Year’s Eve I spent with 20,000-some drunk people and exactly 20 TEFLers on Koh Phangnan, but I’m going to assume I had a fairly amazing time.
What I can recall are the two separate modes of transport that attempted to kill me in the space of a few hours [...]

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