I’m not advocating that, if you’re heading to Chiang Mai, Thailand and end up lost in a forest along the Burmese border, it’s a good thing, nor am I suggesting that you make it easy... Read more >>

From the time I started school, I knew I was different from the other kids. And once I realized that, I wanted to be more “American.” I wanted to eat hamburgers for dinner. I wanted peanut... Read more >>

In late December of 2004, I sat in the foyer of my five-dollar-a-night hotel room in Penang, Malaysia, arguing with an angry night guard who insisted I keep my door closed. I tried telling him I was... Read more >>

Just about five and a half years ago Rob and I were traveling in a remote, mountainous area of northern Thailand when we stumbled across a Buddhist monastery. We were awestruck by its beauty and... Read more >>

11.15.05: 20:30 I haven’t really fully been myself … when I’m awake I don’t recognize myself. When I speak … I sound like someone trying to be normal and it makes me... Read more >>

I worked in Bangkok for three years. Boy, it was such a great adventure! I will always treasure all those three years spent in the Land of Smile. I wonder though, will the Thais treasure my three... Read more >>

Pandabear had another question for me and I am glad to respond. I was wondering to myself, “Why NOT just drop everything and back pack across Thailand—the land of many smiles?”... Read more >>

I am almost seventy-two years old and probably spent more time than most on selecting my retirement location. I spent hundreds of hours finding suitable locations that I could comfortably live in on... Read more >>

It was an accident. I never thought I’d stay. What crazed Westerner would call a place home where you blow out twenty black boogers a day? Bangkok first came as “One Night in... Read more >>

Refugees International Board member Michael Hawkins is currently on mission in Thailand focusing on the situation for Burmese refugees there and how the impact of the ongoing conflict inside Burma... Read more >>