Out we head from Kanchanaburi, leaving this solid, hardworking little city, my grandfather’s grave and the Kwai River behind for now, setting a course for the Gulf of Siam (sounds so much more exotic than the Gulf of Thailand, doesn’t it?).
It proves another good test of our traveling bones.
We leave our hotel — the Noble [...]
Bangkok is a no-holds-barred, steaming and teeming gut-check city — 9 to 15 million people at last count, the steady grinding echo of traffic, acceleration and brakes and horns…
streets that ripple past midnight with people and voices and lights, the scent of five-spice and incense, chicken blood and exhaust fumes, chili in the air the [...]
This little girl was being taken somewhere in Chiangmai on a tuktuk.
While these private school students line up for street snacks.
These kids (and their parents) stay up late while traveling the world.
While these little girls are sent out by the parents to beg in the street at a night market.
You can’t travel without [...]
I’ve always been close to the next big thing: investing in China, a disposable paper suit, leather made from livestock struck dead by lightning. But this time I’ve come up with something that is both necessary and lucrative. I’m not going to disclose it all right here or now, but suffice to say it involves [...]
Two weeks to go before leaving for Singapore. From there, we — that’s Keleakai and I, and our sons Dante and Langston, ages 12 and 8 — will head for Siem Riep and Angkor Wat, then through Cambodia, hopefully by what is reputed to be the last train in Cambodia, from Battambang to Phnom [...]
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