Just so you know that helping you build a stronger web presence and business is never far from my mind, I’ve been thinking A LOT about affiliate marketing and collaboration here. Really! And why, might you ask? Because it’s everywhere, that’s why.
 
Whenever a vendor can’t help us on this trip, from an overbooked masseuse to [...]

OK, so we couldn’t go to Southeast Asia without connecting with a few elephants, right? So we did! An outfitter called Tiger Trails connected us with another, Elephant Extra Large, which helps tourists learn about and ride elephants who’ve retired from the rough logging trade.
 
Elephants, as it turns out, are delicate creatures – sensitive big [...]

Fact: more than half the world’s population – 3 billion – live on less than $2 per day. Recently we were privileged to spend the night with some of them. On our trip to Southeast Asia we’ve traveled up into the northern Laos city of Luangprabang, from where we arranged a 3 day trek. Day [...]

We’re traveling through Thailand with our 13 year old son, Luke, who is having one of the big adventures of his life to date. (This is his second overseas trip, the first being a year ago to Iceland.)
 
Q: What do you think is most interesting about Thailand
A: Takraw and the bazaars

Q: What’s Takraw?

A: It’s a [...]

When you put aside the tourist traps and decide you’re just going to get off the beaten track as much as you dare, one of the great things that happen is that you meet … other crazy souls like you.
Here’s who we’ve met so far:
* Robert and his wife, young college students from Western Canada [...]

Here are a few loose impressions of the country in no particular order.
* This morning I saw a woman in a perfect white suit washing her fleet of mopeds to rent. Clean rules here.
* The intense whistling man who leaps on and off the Chao Phraya express - the public ‘bus’ that’s really a ferry, [...]

It’s been 20 years since I’ve been abroad, and I will say … the world has changed Here are a few impressions of this country, organized in no particular order. got into the cab at the Bangkok airport, the driver turned around and said ‘You US?’ When we said we were, he said ‘Obama! [...]

Like a lot of people who come to Southeast Asia to ’see the life’ we’ve been traveling non stop for days. That’s what it takes if you don’t want to drop a ton of money on plane travel – and if you want to see the country at the same time. I blogged that we [...]

So …  you may or may not notice I’ve fled for the next month. Inspired by Tim Ferriss’s 4 Hour Workweek (remember when he did a free call with me?), I’ve arranged for my business to run without me until March 4, so I can travel through Thailand with my husband, Larry, and our son, [...]

I’m praying for peace this year. Unlikely, I know, but it’s the idealist in me. If we can create the Internet – can’t we all learn to get along?
How about you? Feel free to leave you own fervent holiday wish right here …
I bid you well, wherever you are reading this. Thank you for being [...]