17 Things to be Thankful for in 2012
This is a year-end journey of appreciation and reflection. Of lessons and learnings. Of people and places.
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Filed Under: Travel by: Daniel Noll
18 Comments | 31 December 2012
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Top 5 Experiences in 2007
We are often asked “What were your best experiences? What are your favorite places?”
“All-time favorite places” is a difficult one to answer without writing a book, but if we limit the question to 2007 (as we did in our personal growth exercise last night), the answer becomes manageable and something worth sharing with our readers. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Cambodia, Central Asia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Perspectives, Southeast Asia, Travel, Turkmenistan by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
No Comments | 1 January 2008
New Year’s Eve: A Ritual and a Rat
Early on New Year’s Eve, before the festivities began, we dropped by a local cafe in order to perform our annual year-end ritual of reflection and looking forward. Although the specific exercises have evolved, the objective of our ritual remains the same – reflect on the past year and determine themes for the year ahead. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Personal Growth, Southeast Asia, Thailand by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
3 Comments | 1 January 2008
New Year’s Eve, Bangkok Style
This is great! I’m getting kisses from random gender benders.
– Audrey, on our 2008 New Year’s Eve night out in Bangkok.
Last night, we found ourselves welcoming in the New Year in true Bangkok style – with a band, a late night street food nosh, and a swamp of kisses from a horde of Bangkok’s third genders. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Southeast Asia, Thailand, Travel, Videos by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
6 Comments | 1 January 2008
Year-End Wisdom from Nine Sacred Places
By way of a Buddhist festival that we stumbled upon in Bangkok, we found some fitting wishes and words of wisdom for the new year. In the festival pamphlet, designed very much for locals with a nod to us non-Thai speakers, we discovered a list of wishes and matching offerings for each of the nine participating wats (temples). From this list, we inferred something rather noteworthy. Continue Reading »
Filed Under: Perspectives, Southeast Asia, Thailand by: Daniel Noll and Audrey Scott
3 Comments | 31 December 2007
