Friday, 23 Mar 2007 | Views [1570]
ADP: New Yorkers tend to assume (or more aptly, believe with a deep, zealot-like conviction) that there’s no big city on earth that’s as funky, hip and prodigious as the one they call home. And, having spent most of my twenties falling in love with ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
Wednesday, 21 Mar 2007 | Views [1307] | Comments [3]
Although it probably didn’t seem like it from my previous blog entry, Amanda and I actually didn’t spend our entire time in Ko Pha-Ngan sipping buckets. In between the half moon, New Year’s Eve and full moon parties, the rest of our time was spent exploring ... Read more >
Tags: Beaches & sunshine
Wednesday, 14 Mar 2007 | Views [2245]
When it comes to certain famous cities around the world, most people tend to paint a romanticized picture in their heads about the specific type of experience they’ll have. You know, like dancing ‘til dawn in the streets of Rio with elaborately beaded ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Wednesday, 7 Mar 2007 | Views [4837]
ADP: Long before there was a Sex in the City tour highlighting Carrie Bradshaw’s favorite cosmo-sipping spots and a DaVinci Code tour tracing Robert Langdon’s quest for the Holy Grail, backpackers were following the footsteps of their own unlikely ... Read more >
Tags: Party time
Wednesday, 28 Feb 2007 | Views [24542] | Comments [2]
Nearly every backpacker we’d spoken with in Thailand vehemently recommended we skip Phuket in favor of one of the islands that hadn’t been choked to death by concrete and commercialism. Unfortunately, having not done enough advanced word-of-mouth research, ... Read more >
Tags: Culture
