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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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Greetings From Thailand!
Greetings from Vietnam where, as always, I’m trying hard to get back up to date on these bloggings. Since I last wrote we have finished up Laos and Cambodia, though this entry is all about the end of our time in Thailand. Highlights include three days and two nights trekking …
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Trekking Through the Jungles of Northern Thailand
It was too cold to trek in India or Nepal. Too out of the way in Sri Lanka. We didn’t have enough time in Malaysia. So, when we arrived in Chang Mai, the home of trekking in Thailand, we decided to splurge and take Mr. Whiskey’s “non-touristic” three day and …
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Cooking Like a Thai
Chang Mai is a staple on the tourist circuit of Thailand and it’s easy to see why. While the city itself is a sprawling mass of houses and shops, the main square is a 2 square kilometer area surrounded by a moat and filled with temples, monasteries and history. We …
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Golden Dagobas, Forest Monasteries and Motorbiking in the Rain
The day after our cooking class we rented a motorbike and headed to the outskirts of Chang Mai to visit a couple of temples that would have cost us 5x more to visit by tuk tuk. Our first stop was the Wat Doi Suthep: a monastery atop a mountain centered …
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Meditating in the Forest Monastery of Wat Umong
The Wat Umong meditation retreat story begins with a quest for two plain white tee shirts, as requested by the monk, from the Chang Mai night market. Knowing that we would literally use them for one day then ditch them, we didn’t want to spend too much. Frustrations grew as …
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Crossing the Border…and the Mekong…into Laos
Land border crossings vary from country to country. To get into Singapore and Malaysia we had to enter big buildings with lots of security and lines and have our bags screened by x-ray machines. Before entering Thailand we had to pass a health examination. And then there was Laos. Six …
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Jungle Treks, Cooking Classes and Meditating at a Monastery – This and That
One of the many things that kept us awake and laughing during our night at the local village on our jungle trek was a cat in heat who meow’ed loud and often…especially when it thought the two-stringed instrument Mr. Ton was playing was another cat and would reply to every …
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Jungle Treks, Cooking Classes and Meditating at a Monastery in Chang Mai – Photos and Videos
PHOTOS: Chang Mai, Cooking class and Jungle Trek Crossing the Thailand/Laos border VIDEOS Monks chanting in the rain at Wat Umong, the Forest Monastery in Chang Mai, Thailand Chang Mai Jungle Trek Carrie does a Tarzan Chang Mai Jungle Trek Elephant ride Chang Mai Jungle Trek Hot air balloon liftoff …
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