The Road to Sa Pa

We set off from Mu Cang Chai early, grabbing a coffee for the road at the same place we drank beer with the locals.  It was bang-on delicious.  We stop at the mechanic for an hour while they fix up Kevin’s bike.  He needs a new rim for his tire […]

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On the Road — Vietnam

“My bike is gone” I text the boys.  I spent the last 20 minutes walking up and down the crowded parking garage with an old Vietnamese man, unable to locate the bike with a license plate ending in 0987.  No one spoke English, but eventually they kept showing me a […]

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Birthday Flight

Seat 18D. Bangkok Airways Flight 262 with service to BKK. So it’s my birthday, and I’m sitting here wondering if my eardrum is going to explode once we get up to 40,000 feet.  I’m a little nervous to fly after receiving barotrauma to the middle ear and being advised by […]

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Bucket Boxing

“So there’s this bar in Phi Phi where you can get into a boxing ring and fight someone for a bucket of alcohol” said Cody back in Koh Phangan. It’s the first of March in Koh Phi Phi–my birth month.  I’m sitting behind the boss desk on the porch of […]

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