For ten days at the end of May into the beginning of June, Cream and I did some island hopping along Thailand’s stunning Andaman (west) coast, visiting some of the most beautiful beaches in the world. To cap it off, we finished with a weekend in Hat Yai, one of Thailand’s largest cities and a cultural hub. All in all, this was a fantastic trip where we made it to several less-touristy and incredibly beautiful destinations.
Category: Living Abroad
I’d recommend visiting, exploring, seeing dance performances in Ubud, and checking out Uluwatu and Tanah Lot temples. A week should be plenty of time. If you want to travel for longer, I’d recommend exploring other areas in Indonesia.
The genuine warmth and kindness that was shared with me was extraordinary. There’s no doubt in my mind that if more people received that much love, the world would be a better place. I only saw a very small slice of the Philippines, on this one island. Yet I would place the Philippines very high on my list of recommendations for other travelers, because what I experienced here was nothing short of magical.
As I sit here now at Bangkok’s Suvarnabhumi Airport, *shockingly* still alive, the Thailand chapter is coming to a close. Here are some of my thoughts and insights from the past eight months that I’ll take with me as the journey continues.
Chiang Mai is the first city that I’m living in outside the U.S. as a location-independent freelance copywriter, and I completely love it. My days are full of delicious food and coffee, comfortable working spaces, beautifully decorated shops, and lively markets. These ten photos will show you what I do more-or-less everyday.
Becoming a freelance copywriter paved my way to financial, creative, and location freedom. I frequently get asked for advice and tips from people interested in doing what I do. In this post, I’ll look back over the past year with specific examples and compile some of my biggest insights.
If you hadn’t guessed based on the title yet, I ended up in the hospital over the weekend with a very bad case of food poisoning. It was probably the sickest I’ve ever been. After a 60-hour stay, plus a few days since then, I’m doing a whole lot better now. I’ll get more into the details in this post.
If you asked me two weeks ago what I thought I’d be writing about in my next blog post, I would have guessed it would be about doing work from chic cafes and going to see Buddhist temples here in Chiang Mai. As it turns out, that’s not far off, but it’s not spot-on either. There have been some very pleasant surprises.