If you’re the sort of person who likes to travel, but dislikes sitting in metal tubes of death while they’re thrown from one site to another several thousand feet in the air after having transferred all your favorite liquids to comically small containers, I have news for you. There are things [...]
My favorite thing to ask accomplished travelers is, “where is your least favorite place in the world?” Though goal of this question is to shorten my ever-growing mental list of Places I Must See, the effect is the opposite. Take, for instance, my most recent travels and the four most common answers [...]
On the last episode of Splendor in the Lemongrass, our heroine and hero have joined forces with a young German man to escape from a heavily-fortified border compound. The trio has set off on a taxi cab journey to a rumored bus station in [...]
Derailed: The Story of a Border Crossing Gone Wrong
It all started with an errant cow.
Actually, there’s no way to pinpoint the trigger for the real sequence of events that led to the abandonment of our sleeper car at the Thai-Malaysia border, but let’s use a cow for the purpose of illustration.
By the time this is published, we will be well into a train journey from Thailand, through Malaysia and into Singapore over a course of four days. We will spend a few days in Singapore before flying back to Chiang Mai, just in time for Songkran (สงกรานต์). This is a kind of [...]
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