I can’t postulate as to how long it will take you to fall in love with Costa Rica, but I do imagine these pictures will make you want to see for yourself, if you haven’t already.
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Would I recommend Ethiopia? If you’re willing to work, to persevere and to laugh as the country flushes out your emotions, your ego and your digestive tract over and over again, then absolutely.
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Selective vision is a necessity, on the Ethiopian plateau and in the hellish valleys beneath it, whether your selection is to be blind or to see.
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It is not the speed with which you climb a mountain, but the grace with which you look upon everything beneath it that makes you royal.
Continue ReadingThree Days in Hong Kong
Planning a trip to Hong Kong? Here are my suggestions on how to spend three days in Hong Kong, whether it’s your first trip here or your fiftieth.
Continue Reading30 Pictures That Will Make You Want to Visit Hong Kong
The person I was when I stepped onto the streets of Hong Kong 13 years ago no longer exists, in part because he stepped onto them.
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Butterflies cannot allow themselves to be weighed down by memories of life inside the chrysalis.
Continue ReadingA Big Bangkok Surprise
I’ve been to Bangkok 14 times and stayed at dozens of hotels during those trips. So how is it that one of the city’s finest eluded me until now?
Continue ReadingHere’s How I’m Spending My 31st Birthday
Turning 31 is not exciting—it’s realizing, for maybe the first time ever, that life doesn’t need to be exciting for me to be excited about living it.
Continue ReadingDon’t Ride a Horse Into the Crater of Mount Bromo
Leave Your Daily Hell guest blogger Claudia explains why you should think twice before riding a horse into the crater of Indonesia’s Mount Bromo.
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