Life in Thailand
4 months based in Chiang Mai
- Housing: house shared with rest of the cast of online adventure travel series
- Job: Web Developer/Scholarship Counselor, camp counselor
- Places visited: Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Chiang Mai, Karen Village, Chiang Rai, Burma and Laos border, Mae Rim, Koh Wai
- Dreams fulfilled: Loi Krathong lantern festival, be on a travel show, circumnavigate an island by kayak, skinny dip in the sea, dance with b-boys and ladyboys, pet an elephant, visit Karen hilltribe village, conquer fear of motorbikes, see the Reclining Buddha.
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Rain dancing (Ayutthaya) Photo by Evita Robinson.
watch the videos: part 1, part 2
Paradise Island (Koh Wai)
watch the videos: part 1, part 2
Chasing waterfalls (Chiang Mai)
watch the other waterfall video
Circumnavigating an island. NBD. (Koh Wai)
watch the videos: part 1, part 2
My private beach bungalow (Koh Wai)
Island crew (Koh Wai)
Loi Krathong (Lantern Festival) crew, aka another dream fulfilled. (Mae Rim)
watch the videos: part1, part 2
Favorite. Lady, place, and way to live. (Chiang Mai)
At the floating lakehouse (outside Chiang Mai)
Karaoke is serious business (party time at the floating lakehouse. I’m either singing Jason Mraz, Backstreet Boys, The Beatles, or “Unbreak My Heart.”)
Offering to help out the mamas in the kitchen at the floating lakehouse. (They totally smoked us out afterwards. Their papers were banana leaves and whatever it was, it tasted like tamarind. Nummers!
Lighting a paper lantern in honor of my friend Hannah’s friend who had recently passed on into the next life. RIP.
Star gazing at the floating lakehouse after swimming across the lake. (One of the best experiences of the whole trip.)
Halloween, as Panda and Carmen Miranda (Chiang Mai)
Michael and I at home in Chiang Mai
Thai Mom and Dad and their sons (Chiang Mai)
watch the video of how we met them
Golden Buddha at Doi Sutek (Chiang Mai)
With Udon and Apple after our Monk Chat (Chiang Mai)
Visiting a monk in a cave (Chiang Mai, photo by Bogdan T.)
Diving my time between 3 countries on my border run to Burma (The Golden Triangle, obvs)
Dream: fulfilled (Karen village)
Chasing waterfalls… again… on my birthday (Karen village)
Our hosts at the Karen village
Red Shirt political rally = intense! (Chiang Mai)
Offering to the Buddha (Ayutthaya)
People watching at the train station (Bangkok)
Portrait of a Thai Mama (Bangkok)
Buddha under rainclouds (Ayutthaya)
Buddhas greet you at the temple (Ayutthaya)
Offering to the Buddha (Ayutthaya)
Epic Reclining Buddha. Another dream fulfilled. (Ayutthaya)
Dont disturb the Buddha (Ayutthaya)
Dancing with a friend from back home (Bangkok)
Overlooking Chiang Mai from Doi Suthep
The Jet Set Zero cast and crew on week 1 - with Michael and Nydia (Bangkok)
Train station (Bangkok)
Night train to Bangkok (Ayutthaya)
