Tagged: Southeast Asia

Asia

I realize that my choice of a blog name has somewhat pigeonholed me into a certain style of travel. Budget travel, backpacking, travel hacking, whatever you call it: I’ve always sacrificed luxury and comfort in the name of saving money and thus being able to travel more.

Indonesia

I was having doubts about Bali from inside my air-conditioned car as it comfortably shuttled me from the airport through Denpasar and up to Ubud (the 1.5 hour trip cost me US$22, mind you).

Asia

Full disclosure: I was a major math nerd back in the day. I aced all my honors math classes, won all the math awards, was captain of the math team, even entered Cornell as a math major.

Asia

The second I left the Canon HQ in Silom, Bangkok, I embarked on a little photo excursion. It was my 2nd of 3 stints in this city and I’d just been reunited with my newly-fixed  which had been in the Canon repair shop for 6 weeks while I was busy traversing Cambodia and Vietnam.

Asia

I’m going to give you a little heads up if you’re heading out on the Southeast Asia backpacking trail:

At some point – likely, multiple points – you will meet someone who will wax poetic about a little town called Pai.

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