The main purpose of our first planned stop in Laos was to visit Buddha Park (Xieng Khuan) inside a village just outside of the city. I kept seeing photos of this…
Siem Reap, Cambodia was the first stop on our 3.5 month trip through Southeast Asia. Neither of us had backpacked before, neither of us had been to Asia before, and…
There are so many temples and buildings all over this beautiful archaeological site. It’s impossible to see it all in one, two or three days. We left so much…
Angkor Wat was one of my definite Top 10 Must-Sees for Southeast Asia. It combines several of my loves- archaeology, eastern religion & history- and it went above and…
In college I studied Cultural Anthropology and Eastern Religious Studies. I dealt all through college with the question of what I was going to do with that major. I had…
Today, I turned 25 in Cambodia. I’m a quarter of a century old, and while I may be doing what some think seems to be a quarter-life-crisis, what I’m really…
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure by Sarah Macdonald is one of those books that you should not judge by the cover. I bought this book when I was 17-years-old and really…
