Mystery Honeymoon Destination: Where Are We Going?
Latest Update: Saturday, December 17 ~ And the winner is… (Scroll Downward!) This blog post is being updated on a daily’ish basis until Kattina and I depart on our honeymoon. It will keep jumping back...
View ArticleMy Very First, Really Dumb Online Video Journal
By Dave Fox Singapore Jim Higley looks a lot like me, except he doesn't get a maniacal look in his eyes when asked to smile for a photo. When I was speaking at the Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop in...
View ArticleThe Thirsty Games: How I Barely Survived BeerFest Asia
By Dave Fox Singapore One of the things I like about being a humor writer is that beer festival organizers will give me complimentary tickets to their events. I don’t mean to gloat, but I am guessing...
View ArticleNight Train to Laos
A Cozy Mobile Office from Bangkok to Vientiane By Dave Fox Chugging Through Thailand My tuktuk driver is making me nervous. I have to get back to my hotel to pick up my bag. I have to buy sunscreen...
View ArticleGetting Laosed
Blissful Blisters on a Walk Through Vientiane By Dave Fox Vientiane, Laos At first glance, Vientiane seems smaller than it really is. Few buildings in the town center are over three or four stories....
View ArticlePhantom in the Mirror
COPE Visitors’ Center Sheds Light on Lingering War Danger in Peaceful Laos By Dave Fox Vientiane, Laos The Second Indochina War ended more than three decades ago, but more than a third of Laos is...
View ArticleVientianesomnia
A Quick Glimpse Into My Raw Travel Journals By Dave Fox Luang Prabang, Laos So many stories, so little time. A blurry shot in a blurry state of mind: Monks in Vientiane head out at dawn to collect...
View ArticleBeerlao Brewery Quest
A Bike Ride to the Source of a Wildly Popular Laotian Brew By Dave Fox Vientiane, Laos We’re a little bit lost – me and my new pal Lisa. We’ve rented bikes, pedaled out from the center of Vientiane,...
View ArticleBeerlao Beyond the Guidebook
A Few Blocks from Touristville: The Real Vientiane By Dave Fox Vientiane, Laos [This story began yesterday, with a quest to visit the Beerlao Brewery. Read part one here.] Our efforts to tour the...
View ArticleBig Brother Mouse Wants You!
Tutor English or Attend a Rural Village “Book Party” with this Laotian Literacy Organization By Dave Fox Luang Prabang, Laos “I was just walking by and saw the sign,” said Chris Maddox, a backpacker...
View ArticlePhotographing Strangers
Ask Before You Shoot? I Do, and Here’s Why By Dave Fox Do you like to take pictures of people when you travel? How do you approach those people? In my latest article for Singapore Airlines and their...
View ArticleLatest Newsletter: Halfway Through a Double Marathon
By Dave Fox Singapore If you try to run a double-marathon, and you only make it halfway, you haven’t failed. Hey, that was kind of profound, wasn’t it? (Actually, no. It was not. Because there’s no...
View ArticleLaos in Seconds: A Laotian Video Vacation
By Dave Fox Traveling in Laos Join me on my 18-day Christmas and New Year vacation in Laos! Each day from December 19, 2016, to January 5, 2017, I’m stitching together lots and lots of very short video...
View ArticleGlobejotting Travel Show Episode 2: Uluru in Australia. Invisible Monks in Laos.
December 5, 2017 The latest episode of the Globejotting Travel Show on Expat Radio is now available online. Listen here. Park officials in Australia have announced that beginning in October, 2019,...
View ArticleThe Splat Heard ‘Round the World (And How Geckos Walk on Ceilings)
By Dave Fox Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam There’s an unmistakable “splat” sound, a sound unlike any other sound in the universe, that occurs when a gecko falls off the ceiling and lands on a tile floor. In...
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