Happy Anniversary to me. Happy Anniversary to me. Happy anniversary dear Traveling Brandy. Today my flight leaves from Madrid to Bangkok, Thailand where I will begin a journey around South East Asia working as a professional traveler. Wow. Coincidentally, it´s also been 5 years to the day since I took off on my Round The…
Note : This is a guest post by my friend, Matt Browne. As he is an avid lover of the California Central Coast as well as a pensive person, I thought he was a great contact to reach out to in order to join me in speaking out on behalf of the preservation of whales….
Not all bad reviews have bad endings! A few years ago, I purchased the Guerrilla Pack and took it on a four month journey with me… It fell apart when I needed it most, and left my belongings unsecured and my back aching. To prevent other travelers from making the same purchase mistake, I went…
After taking a few months off of writing for the website, it’s only fair to let you know what’s been keeping me away. Since my blogger’s burnout, I found myself loving less the travel writing world, but never did I stop loving travel, it simply felt cast in another light : it became “real work”;…
That moment when you login to the admin screen and see the notifications on the right hand side : 127 comments, 7 plugins, 14 updates and that’s not even including emails. Shit. Where do I start? There’s a million things pressing into the back of my mind like a trick birthday candle that just won’t…
You’ve bought the ticket, you’re so excited for your adventure, you’ve read all the best travel tips in the world, but there’s just one thing in your way — yo momma! or your dad, or a pack of wolves (hey, I don’t know who raised you). Here’s a few things you should consider when you…
Girl Meets Elephant I’ll never forget the moment I first met an elephant. A good friend and fellow blogger, Diana Edelman, had invited me to her job in Chiang Mai, Thailand. We got on a bus and made the windy drive to a lush camp in the Mae Taeng area. As we drove past…
[quote] Everyone in the cafe was turned to look at me. “MHMMMM” I said, with more oomph and soul than a Holy-Roller preacher woman. I licked my finger and flipped the page, devouring the words. The article, “Date A Girl Who Doesn’t Travel” by Debra Ly, was the perfect mixture of honesty and boldness. While…
It’s frighteningly easy to hide yourself behind a blog. Sure, we’re public people who write and photograph our hearts out, but there’s no honesty breathalyzer that we have to blow into before being allowed to hit “publish”. Sometimes, this leads to certain people filtering out parts of their personality that they imagine are less desirable…
Sure, we all know how to avoid Food poisoning in Thailand, but there’s another condition that’s not given enough attention : Farang Poisoning! Farang is the Thai word for “alien” and you will hear it used while walking the streets, in the night markets, or when streams of children pass by, fingers pointed “farang! farang!”…