Traveling again
True to form, I’m going out of town again, this Thursday! Many people already tell me I travel too much, with my November trip to Guangxi and Vietnam, Christmas/New Years trip back to the States, Chinese New Year’s trip to India, and all the traveling I did in 2007 and into early 2008. Hey, I’m not the only one in my family that travels so much–my cousin just got back from spring break in South Africa and Namibia and before that was in Burkina Faso. Seriously, read her blog, she writes in an entertaining and casual manner and has loads of interesting stories from Ghana.
This Thursday I’m heading off to Koh Phangan Thailand for my 3rd time. This time will be similar to my 2nd, when I did a detox at the Sanctuary Retreat in Haad Thien Bay, Koh Phangan. Given my ambivalent feelings towards the Sanctuary from last time and my constant urge to seek out new territory, I’ve opted for a cheaper place called Ananda Yoga Resort where I will do a 7.5-day detox this time. This will be 4 days longer than last time and I plan to post both on twitter and perhaps on here about my current state and the effects of the fast.
Besides getting the Thailand trip organized, I’ve also been thinking about and trying to plan trips to
- Seoul, South Korea (April/May)
- Pingyao, Shanxi, China (April/May)
- Hangzhou (2nd time), China (April/May)
- Huangshan, China (April/May)
- Vancouver & Victoria, Canada (July/August)
- Ankorage, Alasaka, USA (July)
If anyone has any advice on what to see, where to stay, or how to get cheap tickets to those places, I’d love to hear them. More details of travels to come through twitter, flickr, etc. And I may even sign up for Dopplr or TripIt, which would show up in the left-hand column blog as well.
Now if only there were some way I could make money from all this traveling…
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