In this, my 100th post here on Twenty First Century Nomad, I felt it time to address as to why, in fact, I am nomadic. It’s been nineteen and a half years since I first set foot on Bali, which means it’s been nineteen and a half years since I first discovered I was nomadic.…
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Okay, so I’m not exactly fat. But when I came to live in Thailand for a few months, it was with several clear goals: -Complete a second edit on my novel…check! -Absorb the lifestyle, i.e. beach, food, hammocks, pace of life…check! -Maintain my relative fitness and lose a little weight…EPIC FAIL!! I’m nearly 40, and…
Today marks the 3 month anniversary of Leslie and I moving from Korea to Koh Yao Noi, Thailand. And what better way to celebrate, than an afternoon at our favorite spot on the island, Had Yao Beach, followed by chilled wine in our hammocks as we blog. Hic! I’ll post about Yao Noi again soon,…
In a month, Leslie and I will leave Koh Yao Noi for India. By the time we depart, we’ll have been on this fabulous little Thai island that we call home almost 4 months, and despite our excitement of going to India, it will nevertheless be a little sad. Yao Noi is a small, peaceful…
With over 7,000 islands in the Philippines to choose from, and only a week to spend there on vacation from Korea, I plumped for Boracay and its famous White Beach. On a short trip like that it doesn’t take much to make me happy…delicious native food, warm seas, and cold beers at a few cool…
Scuba diving is a hobby that I love dearly but do rarely. That’s largely because I’m a scuba snob, diving only in warm, tropical waters, a la Thailand, Malaysia, The Philippines…you get the idea. That’s until I visited the ‘Hawaii of South Korea,’ Jeju Island. That the Korean Tourist Board tagged it with Hawaii is…
Yep, that’s where we live, we meaning my wonderfully talented writer girlfriend Leslie Patrick and I. Tiny Koh Yao Noi lies just a few hundred meters north of larger Koh Yao Yai, which in turn sits nestled a few miles off the coast of the much bigger island of Phuket, Thailand. (for map of the Andaman Sea…
Today, May 31st, marks the one week anniversary of moving into our new house on Koh Yao Noi. So far so good, and t’would be an understatement if I said that it wasn’t amazing. There have been a few hiccups, inevitably…12 hour power-cuts, torrential storms, giant cockroaches…but all in all it’s been a smooth transition.…
As we all know, life has a funny way of surprising us. When we least expect it, some unknown event happens and changes everything. It can be for the better or for the worse, but it’s how we deal with it that matters. When the school that I taught ESL at in Korea unexpectedly closed…
