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Adventures of a GoodMan is my answer to the age-old question: I traveled...now what? In it, I blend digital photographic art with stories chronicling my journeys abroad and at home.
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Hotel Rooms For $3 per Night – You Get What You Pay For!
Early on while backpacking through India and SouthEast Asia, my wife Carrie and I realized that there really wasn’t that much of a difference between a $3 hotel room and a $13 hotel room.
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Behind the Lines With Thai Red Shirt Protestors
Today’s photo of the day comes from my trip to Thailand in 2009, when I went behind the protest lines and got to know the Red Shirts in their Bangkok encampment.
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Tagged Bangkok, Protest, red shirt, Southeast Asia, Thailand
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The Floating Market of Damnoen Saduak
The Floating Market of Damnoen Saduak is a highlight of the tourist trail through Thailand and one of the main reasons we booked one final week in the country. Boats line up to take visitors on a tour of the canals that weave their way behind and through a large …
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Couchsurfing, Clubbing and Shopping in Bangkok
After our visit to the floating market, we headed back to Bangkok and to the apartment of Tom, a local who we found through Couchsurfing. As he works from home, we quickly dropped our bags off at his sweet apartment and headed out for a day of price checking and …
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Chasing the Naked Thai Thief and Other Thailand Tales – This and That
It feels right to be back in a country where people drive on the left side of the road. After Vietnam, it was a nice change to be back in Thailand where everyone is nice…even the shopkeepers. Shortly after our return I asked a cop for directions and he wrote …
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Chasing the Naked Thai Thief and Other Thailand Tales – Photos and Videos
Travel photography and stories from backpacking adventures in Thailand, SouthEast Asia.
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A Day at the Office and Abandoned in a Monastery in Bangkok
An hour and 40 minutes later, the four of us were still sitting in the basement, sweating, joking and swatting away mosquitoes with no sign of the monk. We finally banded together and went upstairs, where the monk was just sitting around. He said, “are you done?”
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Welcome to Thailand – A Culture Shock Coming From India
Throughout Southeast Asia, the astrological New Year is celebrated in the middle of April. In many countries, including Sri Lanka, it is a time for family, reflection and relaxation. However, we wanted to experience a big celebration, so we moved up our plans and booked a flight to Bangkok the …
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Celebrating Thai New Year With a Huge Water Fight
Thai New Year, known locally as Songkran, is celebrated grandly in Bangkok by dousing friends and strangers with water and wiping a mixture of chalk powder and water on people’s faces. Both are meant to be symbols for the substances used by monks to bless people and anyone who goes …
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Civil Unrest and Meeting the Red Shirts
Civil unrest seems to follow Carrie and I wherever we go. First we headed to India just after the 26/11 attacks. Then it was off to Sri Lanka where a 33 year old civil war was experiencing renewed fighting. Now we find ourselves in Bangkok, Thailand, where the people have …
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The Most Disgusting, Slummy and Awful Place I’ve Ever Stayed…for Five Days
A former whorehouse and home of at least two murders and one ghost, the Overstay featured shattered panes of glass in the hallways, toilets with no pipes, dozens of travelers sleeping on the floor and bedbugs galore. And I stayed there for five nights.
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Thank Heaven for 7-Eleven
We met a group of girls while volunteering at Sadhana Forest who told us that we would spend tons of time in 7-Eleven in Thailand. As we usually try to live like the locals do we could not fathom how this could possibly be true…until we arrived in Bangkok. Literally, …
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Meat on a Stick…And Other Tasty Treats
After the India/Sri Lanka half of the trip was spent with a primarily vegetarian diet, I was very excited to arrive in Bangkok and find the streets filled with street vendors selling sausages, chicken and beef on a stick for around 30 cents each. They make a great snack in …
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We Saw Other Stuff in Bangkok Too!
In addition to playing with water and checking out civil unrest, we also did some sightseeing in Bangkok. Our first day we headed over to the weekend market, which had more than 200,000 stalls selling everything from clothes to jewelry, handicrafts, food, pets and trinkets from the USA. Another day …
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Posted in SouthEast Asia, Thailand, The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest, Thai New Year and the Worst Place I've Ever Stayed
Tagged Bangkok, City, Temple, Temples, Thailand
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and The Worst Place We’ve Ever Stayed…This and That
Not sure what we did to deserve it, but our flight from Sri Lanka to Chennai (the first of 3 flights to get to Bangkok) was upgraded to first class. It was awesome! The best pad thai I had was from a little old woman with a street stall who …
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The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest and the Worst Place We've Ever Stayed…Photos and Videos
As always, here is the full photo gallery for this entry. There are lots that aren’t in the posts so check them out! Or visit the flickr page directly: Bangkok photos Red Shirt Rally full photo set And the video links from the posts… A concert of traditional northeastern style …
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Posted in Lots 'o Travel Snapshots, Photography, SouthEast Asia, Thailand, The Streets of Bangkok: Water Fights, Civil Unrest, Thai New Year and the Worst Place I've Ever Stayed, Videos and Multimedia
Tagged Bangkok, City, Lots 'o Travel Snapshots, Multimedia, phot, Photos, Thailand, Videos, YouTube
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