Leaving Mem's Place was sad indeed, as she confirmed upon leaving that she considered all her tenants her sons and daughters, and gave us a big hug before we left. The only picture I have of her is pouring rum into our buckets before the party, but I will always remember that woman fondly. Anyway, as we would come to realize over the next two months, it would always be time to move on once you met a good group of people, became accustomed in any way to the coun...

So, the day of the Full Moon Party- where to even begin? I actually woke up around 9am - running on about 4 hrs of sleep (from the Jungle Experience Party the night before) , ready to go. We ate breakfast and decided, hey, we can rent motorbikes for 7 dollars a day. Should we do it? Answer: Hell yeah. So a man in a pickup came to pick us up at Mem's Place, a woman who quickly cemented her role in our lives as our Thai mother, if our mothers liked to serve m...

So the journey started today. I arrived at the Bangkok airport on time and ran smack into Carlee. She had had a ridiculous amount of drama with her plane ticket, so I had been petrified we wouldn't make it to Bangkok at the same time. Sidenote, all travelers should know this. Say if you're ever traveling to Thailand, or, really, anywhere that doesn't require a visa beforehand, and you bought a roundtrip flight ticket more than the 30 days allowed in the count...

So this is it. It's been a year. I remember right before I left, I read a quote. And it gave me the confidence to jump that plane and go. "The days are long, but the years are short." I appreciated it then, but I've lived it now, and nothing has been more true. The winter was rough. Somedays, I came close to running out of the country and hopping the first plane anywhere because I missed my family, my friends, and the simplicity of not having to mime ...

So I just wanted to put this in writing. I couldn't find a script anywhere, and I heard this amazing speech online last night. Spoken by Pico Iyer, I was so inspired. He is born in India, but has lived the majority of his life between England and Japan. He talks about what 'home,' means. And currently, the number of expats (by which I mean foreigners who live in nonnative countries) around the world number higher than the population of Australia and Canada...