Category: Food and Beverage

Food is sustenance and therefore necessity. Happily we have enjoyed dining out about one meal a day. It’s hard to food shop without waste and get the same result you can ordering food from a street vendor or in most restaurants here. This post is…

Visa requirements for visits longer than 30 days in Thailand, with their associated costs and time investment for meeting the requirements led us to a getaway from our getaway. For about the same expenditure as the extended stay visa, we escaped Chiang Mai and our…

Feasting is central to our passion for exotic destination travel. Thailand creates pleasure not only for the eye through plate presentations artistically garnished but also via the taste buds impacted with the freshness of the ingredients and the spicy Thai chili influence. Sounds of meats…

From Pig Snouts to Watermelon and a few things in between! 😉  

Bidding farewell to Mae Hong Son Town we made our way to the 1095. In our wanderings the night before, I had seen the many souvenirs that boasted the 1,864 curves we would encounter between here and Pai. We were thrilled with the idea of…

Yesterday, after our “nap” to catch up to the new time zone a bit, we walked over twelve miles in the Sukhumvit area of Bangkok. Taking in the sites, sounds and smells, absorbing the culture a bit, generally acclimating ourselves and taking care of currency…

Live music was the first item on our agenda as we arrived in one of our favorite home towns, Reno. 10 Years was playing at a place I will leave unmentioned. (We frequent many institutions in our travels and as I have stated in the…

Pondering life, doing some research and some studying about blogging and travel writing was my business at hand these past days. My honey was involved in the real business of being in this locale. On arrival, we felt the “coming home” part of Reno. Familiar….

Dear Readers, It was with some hesitation that I decided to keep this last couple weeks of light travel to myself. An attempt at a total disconnect, an unplug. No news, no social media, (to speak of, man what a habit that is, for real),…

’Ole man winter began his arrival with moisture (rain, hail, sleet, snow; it all came down) and some drop in temperature and we “fell back” via daylight savings the weekend before the final tour of the Chamber series, “Getting to Know Idaho City” (Better). The…