When I first got to Thailand, I thought it might be interesting to see a Muay Thai fight. It wasn't high on my list of things to do, but I figured it could be fun. Then I spent a few days in Phuket dodging touts with Muay Thai flyers and being screamed at by promoters cruising the streets in pickup trucks, blasting unintelligible pseudo-English gibberish through cheap … [Read more...]
This Is How You Cruise the Streets of Marrakech
If you ask 100 people, you'd get 100 different definitions of 'cool', but this Moroccan woman fits every last one of them. Watching her cruise through the Djemaa El-Fna (Marrakech's main square and the subject of this previous post) made me feel like real loser for walking across it all day on my own two feet. … [Read more...]
Seoul Man Sports World’s Greatest Mullet
That is the look of a man who knows that his mullet puts Kentuckians and European hockey players to shame. Business in the front, party in the back and fabulous all over, this Seoul man works the camera after a long day of hiking in the mountains of South Korea's capital. … [Read more...]
Large Drunk Bikers In Seoul’s Hongdae Children’s Park
This little story relates one of the funniest things I've ever seen, but have been putting off writing about, because I have no idea how to accurately paint the hilarious picture. Even the word biker in the title doesn't quite give the correct impression, despite being the correct descriptive word. Doesn't make sense? I know. We'll get to that later, though; first a little … [Read more...]
Surreal New Year’s Eve in Kuala Lumpur
A few years ago, I found myself in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia at the end of December and got to enjoy my first New Year's Eve in a Muslim country. My night began like so many, on the rooftop of my hostel, where a bunch of people, including eight or nine Finns, were having a few overpriced beers. The Finns had arrived in four separate groups and had found each other purely by … [Read more...]