Look what the Other Marie crocheted me! I didn't even know she could crochet.

When you fly for free on a frequent flyer ticket, you pay in non-monetary ways. You have to take what's available, and that might n...

New shoes! I headed out of Bangkok on the afternoon of January 6. I had some spare time in the morning, so I bought some new shoes to r...

I'd really overdone it my few days in Bangkok, so all I wanted to do was sit in the coffee shop all day, but I still had a few missio...

I love the Thai zebra, which you can find as offerings at shrines around Bangkok. I first noticed them in 2011, and was mystified. I'm...

"What do you mean I can't post home my wooden monks from Burma?" "No Buddha images," said the man at the post o...

AirAsia left me at Bangkok's old airport. I hadn't been here in years, and was a little startled. "How do we get to the trai...

In the morning, I had breakfast in the top floor restaurant of Silver Swan before catching a shared taxi back out to the airport. The air...

The flight from Heho to Mandalay was much, much shorter than the taxi ride from the Mandalay airport to the Mandalay center. I'd thou...

I awoke to the sounds of farts. I’d been desperate for a hotel room. I shouldn’t complain about my little spot right off the dining room....