Category Archives: Travel

A Dash Through Delhi

AirIndia Flight 333 descends like a rock, nose first. towards Indira Gandhi International Airport. Like everything else in India, it’s a little extreme. But to the few passengers around me, all of them Indian, it’s just business as usual. Ten days ago, in the zen of a palm-shaded courtyard in Chiang Mai, Thailand, I pulledContinue reading “A Dash Through Delhi”

The Mae Hong Son Loop

The Mae Hong Son Motorbike Loop starts and ends in Chiang Mai. It’s is a 600 kilometer circuit through the mountains of northern Thailand, snaking through verdant jungles and sleepy villages, past the highest point in the country and up along the Burmese border. It’s famous for its curves. Estimates vary because the route differs,Continue reading “The Mae Hong Son Loop”

The Best Little Restaurants in Thailand

It doesn’t much matter where I am on the planet, I crave Thai food. I want Khao Soi for breakfast, Pad Kra Pao Moo for lunch, and Gaeng Penang for dinner. I want to snack on satay and spring rolls and fish cakes while I dodge motorbikes in the street. I want pork on aContinue reading “The Best Little Restaurants in Thailand”

A Week in the Sandbox

To-do lists winnowed away and planning is in the bag. After a year and a half where international travel was only fantasy. Wheels up, finally. Still, there are covid restrictions in place and certain protocol to follow. I’m entering Thailand through Phuket, where I have to spend a week before I can to travel elsewhereContinue reading “A Week in the Sandbox”

The Cure for Wanderlust

It’s an affliction really. It isn’t fatal near as I can tell, but it can sometimes feel suffocatingly so. Symptoms include (but are not limited to): chronically fantasizing remote destinations, acute desires for foreign culture, insatiable cravings for ‘exotic’ food, and a general sense of malaise about one’s current location. In the afflicted, the simpleContinue reading “The Cure for Wanderlust”