Thailand travel

Editor’s note: This snapshot from a year of travel back in 2015 is far from evergreen and isn’t very relevant to readers anymore. I’m leaving it up though because it links to some cool things I wrote throughout the year and highlights visits to places worth visiting. I’ve moved back to Mexico since and am …

Another year, another few dozen great travel stories from Perceptive Travel, founded in 2006 and still going strong. Here’s our rundown of the top travel stories of the year in 2015. We kicked things off by welcoming Mary Jo McConahay for the first time. She has scored a “Travel Journalist of the Year” award from …

In the Trang province of southern Thailand there is an almost secret attraction by the road that jolted me from my morning travel funk and put 100 photos on my memory card in the space of 15 minutes. A retired local teacher named Mr. Jaroon Keawla-eiad took over this land of theptaro trees many decades …

Want to make Thai food in your kitchen that tastes like what you get in a restaurant? There are two basic rules to make it happen: get the right ingredients and add them in the right order. This week I took my second one-day Thai cooking course and was reminded that one of the world’s …

It’s time to take a break from serious travel advice again and just have a laugh, this time from Thailand. Sure, I take lots of scenic photos when I travel, but I revel in the silliness even more sometimes. First up, there are a lot of things you’re not supposed to do in a Bangkok taxi …