6 Things to Do in Launceston
The second-largest city in Tasmania, Launceston feels larger than its roughly 85,000 people. It’s spread out over a good amount of space — but the downtown is easily walkable (my […]
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A Beginner’s Guide to Luang Prabang
Planning a trip to Luang Prabang? There are endless things to love about this small city — temples, rivers and waterfalls, good food, nice people — so much that I […]
Tramping Through Tampines
The area of northeastern Singapore known as Tampines — now a major Regional Centre (read: giant suburb) — was once little more than a twine of mangroves, mudflats, and swamp […]
Tromping Through Taipei
Taipei has great food and plenty to see, but it is not an especially attractive place. Most of the buildings in the city went up between the 1950s and the […]
Capitalist Communism
Vietnam remains a communist country (for those who don’t remember their history classes: the US lost the war, the North Vietnamese Army took control of the South, the country was […]
The River and the Bay
My dad is in Singapore! For his first morning here, we started with a trip to the Bukit Timah Food Centre, a hawker stall where he tried things like chicken […]
Masks in the Market
Our second day in Bali began with a trip to the market. You can shop until you drop in Ubud and then shop some more. They sell everything from paintings […]
The Hinterland
In Queensland we stayed in a region called the Hinterland, an area up in the hills north of Brisbane, just beyond the Glass House Mountains. I love the name — […]
Pilgrimages
Thailand continues to be in mourning for King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who died on October 13 last year. This king was the world’s longest-ruling monarch when he died, and he is […]
To Market, To Market, to Buy a Fat Marigold
Bangkok, where I traveled for a conference, is a sprawling, unplanned mess of a city. Some people find it charming because while it has grown, it has retained many of […]
