Somewhere along the Andaman coast, we did something that I would once have thought completely crazy: we left our wallets, car keys, and phones right on a shirt on the open beach, and casually disappeared into the waves for two hours. It didn’t even cross our minds to worry. Now, you could argue we’d been
While the Thai lowlands swelter in stifling heat, cool winds carry mist across alpine meadows studded with wildflowers and long-trunked pines. Phu Soi Dao is not at all the kind of destination most people associate with Thailand, but ever since I’d read a feature about it in a local newspaper, we’d been planning a trip
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Walking Away It felt like a crisis. Government policy had shifted, pushing us past an ethical boundary we refused to cross. Staying in our jobs was no longer an option. Yet looking back, I’m strangely grateful for that push. It stripped away the status quo and forced us to radically reevaluate our lives. With the
A narrow, 300-kilometer province whose mountains divide the Isan Plateau from the rest of Thailand, Phetchabun is the definition of a borderland. Reaching it requires at least a four-hour drive from any of Thailand’s major cities, but its isolation makes it all the more worth visiting. Jump Ahead We were heading north to Loei and
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