Thai Food Favorites: Laab
Sawatdee krub! Greetings! Another one of my favorite dishes from Thailand which I find pretty easy to repeat at home
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Traveling and Telling Lies
*Winner of a 2021 PenCraft Award!* I have just released a new book! Let me explain… I never would have
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Paddling Madison’s Flood
A house along the Yahara River still requires sandbags almost a month after the flooding rains. With over a
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2017 in Review: Travels, Reads, and Music
TRAVELING Another year behind us, and my third passport is one year closer to expiration (2023). Which will run out
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Madhya Pradesh Travel Mart 2017
I recently had the opportunity to participate in Madhya Pradesh Travel Mart, the 4th annual such event, in Bhopal, India,
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September 11th from my notes
In September, 2001, I was living in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. I had sold my car for about $4000 and planned to
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Where to stay and eat in Indianapolis for the Big Ten Championship Game
Since 2011, the Big Ten Football Championship game has been held at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, IN. If you
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Kreng Jai and the Soi Boy
“Oh my god, honey!” Peung’s voice rose up at the last word, like an exaggerated example of her Thai rising
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Bockfest: Beer for a Cause
They say drinking is not a solution, and while that might be sage advice, there is always a rare exception.
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The Finnish Sauna Experience
Blog post #5 From The Finland Trip For being so far north, things certainly get very hot in Finland. To
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Finnish Your Plate
Blog post #4 From The Finland Trip My Finnish-American grandmother was very fond of lutefisk as was her mother before
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Northern Lights in Finland: Aurora Holidays
We looked out over the Tenojoki or Teno River at Norway, at the mirror image of the Finnish terrain. Modest
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Finland Trip 2: Kuusamo
(continued) Our flight to Kuusamo from Chicago O’Hare meant a change of planes (and loss of a bag) in Dusseldorf,
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Finland Trip: In Search of My Family
We typically like to hang around Madison in summer – like most Wisconsinites these few months of magnificent weather and
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A NEW DOMAIN for The Mad Traveler
TIME TO UPDATE YOUR LINKS! Some of you who have known my website for a while now may have
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Gaziantep: The Mother of all Mosaic Collections
Back in 1998, while overnighting in Antakya, Turkey (Antioch!), I got up early before our afternoon bus into Syria —
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Three Second Rule in Hue
I am not squeamish about street food. I swear by it, generally speaking. The occasions I get rip-roaring sick I
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Dancing the Night Away in Hue
After a dinner of Hue’s famous pancakes, just outside the walls of the citadel, we were walking back along the
Read MoreThe Mad Traveler Reading List 2015
NOTE: I have a lot of Amazon links here for those of you who like to shop there, but I
Read MoreTravels of 2014: Looking Back
A bus full of young Buddhist nuns in Yangon, Myanmar, one of my first stops for the year for an
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