This Week In Travel – Episode 27

This week Jen Leo couldn’t make it so we had two guests: Juila Dimon and Chris Grey Faust. We talk about Kevin Smith being too fat. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Why is Bangkok the Most Visited City in the World?

Why is Bangkok Popular?

In my more than decade of global wanderings, there is one place that always comes to mind first when I decide I need a culturally interesting place—one with great food, markets, and other expats—to work remotely for a few months. Even though I always look broadly to consider other cities with digital nomads and low …

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Living is Easy, Bangkok Edition

First, let me say I haven’t forgotten about the rest of my street food adventure. Suffice to say I’m still mostly eating street food. My final installments in the series will be video and a photo essay, so I’m taking my time. I’ve finally caught up on all my photo editing. I haven’t been in …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 26

This week’s guests were Sean Keener of BootsNAll and Andrew Evans who called in from Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. He spent 40 days traveling there on buses from Washington DC. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts Stories This Week Andrew reports from Ushaia, Argentina after 40 days of bus travel from Washington, DC. …

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Operation Street Food – Day 3 & 4 (Khao San Road)

Here is my street food breakdown for days 3 and 4: Day 3 1kg longkong and 1kg rambutan – 200 baht (US$6.02) This lasted two days 1 mystery meat – 20 baht ($0.60) 2 chicken gizzard skewers and 1 roasted fish – 30 baht ($0.90) Pad Thai with chicken – 40 baht ($1.20) Mango with …

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Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site

Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site - UNESCO World Heritage Site

The Cahokia Mounds State Historic Site World Heritage inscription : Cahokia Mounds is the largest and earliest pre-Columbian settlement north of Mexico. It was occupied primarily during the Mississippian period (800–1350) when it covered over 1,600 hectares (3,950 acres) and included some 120 mounds. It is the pre-eminent example of a cultural, religious, and economic …

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Operation Street Food – Day 2 (Tropical Fruits)

Another day of street food has come and gone. Here is what I had to eat on Thursday. Lunch Jackfruit – 20 baht (US$0.60) bag of chicken skin and 2 chicken wings 42 baht ($1.27) bag of longkong – 50 baht ($1.51) Dinner Skewer of chicken gizzards and grilled fish – 20 baht (US$0.60) I …

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Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

Mammoth Cave National Park, Kentucky

From the World Heritage inscription for Mammoth Cave National Park: Mammoth Cave is the most extensive cave system in the world, with over 285 miles (456 km) of surveyed cave passageways within the property (and at least another 80 miles [128 km] outside the property). The park illustrates a number of stages of the Earth’s …

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