50th Post: My Bucket List Beginnings

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about long-term goals and the proverbial bucket list. Sure, there are tons of things that I want to do (or wanted and have since done them!), but I never really stopped to write them all down…until now.

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My Long Weekend Back at Home

In an unintentional escape from the red shirts’ violent clashes in Bangkok this past weekend, I’m just getting back to the city today after a long weekend at home in New York… I mean, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on a visa run.

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Red Shirt Protests Turn Ugly in Bangkok

The political upheaval is brought to us by two opposing camps: the red shirts and yellow shirts. Both groups are driven by Thaksin Shinawtra, the former prime minister of Thailand, who was ousted by the military in coup in the fall of 2006. While the red shirts support him, the yellow shirts do not.

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Ch-Ch-Changes [in Travel Plans]

I’ve met a lot of people on the road doing some pretty awesome things — teaching English, running their own businesses, blogging, volunteering — and realized I really wanted to be one of them. So I’ve chosen to stay in Bangkok for the time being to work toward that goal.

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