It’s Not You It’s Me, Koh Phangan
Koh Phangan, we need to talk. No, things have been going great, but I’m not in a good place right now and I think…
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Wish You Were Here: Penang, Malaysia
It’s 10 p.m. and our street in Penang is stirring to life. The two girls on the corner have been chopping vegetables and heating big…
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Wish You Were Here: Huay Tung Tao Lake, Thailand
Winter never touches Thailand. From November through February, Thailand’s cool season is a perfect summer of endlessly sunny days that peak in the upper…
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Getting Dissed by a Dolphin
Growing up, there were two kinds of kids in the world: kids who had been to Disneyland and kids who hadn’t. If you…
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The Philippines: Steam and Ghosts, Part III
The zoo is an hour’s drive in the rain, through soupy fields of rice paddies. Occasionally we pass a farmhouse that seems to float…
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The Philippines: Steam and Ghosts
They send a car to fetch me in the morning, even though the call center is only a kilometer from my hotel. I am…
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