My First Impressions of Sri Lanka My first glimpses of Sri Lanka appeared through my plane window. They revealed a sea of dense green. Thick tropical forests and tea bushes rolled over gentle hills in every direction to the horizon. No cities or towns marred the beautiful unending sea of green. Not even many houses …
Alor Setar – Malaysia Alor Setar is a small but important city in the far northwest corner of Malaysia, just 30 km from the border of Thailand. Not surprisingly, some Thai influence is found in the city, including several Thai temples. When I visited I didn’t actually come across any Thai restaurants, shops or people. …
Asia’s Amazing Shopping Malls Let me start this article by qualifying that I am not into shopping. At all. For instance, whenever making plans with friends or on my own, I would never come up with the idea, “Hey, let’s go shopping!”. Not gonna happen. I’m much more inclined to head outdoors for hiking or …
How to Afford Long-Term World Travel pt 1 – The Three Components The most frequent question hopeful world travelers ask me is how I can afford to travel the world, especially long-term. This seems to be the major question asked not only to myself, but to many other travel bloggers and long-term world travelers. Everyone …
LashWorldTour NEWS: My Interview About Teaching English in Japan for 6 Years Before I started my world travels I lived in Kyoto, Japan for 6 years teaching English in Kyoto and Osaka cities. That’s actually how I saved money to start traveling the world. Recently, Samuel Jeffries of Nomadic Samuel interviewed me about teaching in …
PHOTO GALLERY: Malacca Malaysia Malacca is a famous historic port town on the west coast of Malaysia. As one of the most important ports on the old Asian trading route, Malacca is packed full of historic buildings: restored Chinese shop-houses, colonial European buildings, temples, mosques, churches and forts. Today Malacca also boasts nearly 40 museums …
10 Free Things to do in Malacca – Malaysia Melacca is a famous historical port town on the west coast of Malaysia, located about 2 hours southwest of Kuala Lumpur. For several centuries from the mid 1400s, Malacca was one of the most important ports on the old Asian trading route. It attracted traders, merchants …
Travel Tale: How I Missed My Trip to the Dominican Republic I’ve never been to the Dominican Republic. Yet. But I came this close to visiting just one year ago. I did all the research. I made my whole plan. In fact, I made two whole plans. In the end, I had to give them …
PHOTO GALLERY: Three National Parks in Utah – USA Utah is a stunningly beautiful state full of amazing national parks featuring rock outcroppings, pinnacles, canyons and cliffs. They present a surprising diversity of formations and colors. I was lucky enough to visit three of them, namely, Canyonlands, Arches and Bryce Canyon. Of the three, it’s …
TRAVEL INTERVIEW: Andi Perullo of My Beautiful Adventures Gorgeous Andi Perullo is quite a remarkable, diverse and unusual young American woman. First of all, she’s a Chinese medicine doctor with her own wellness center in Charlotte, North Carolina. That’s already rather unique for a young American woman. But that impressive achievement isn’t nearly enough to satisfy adventurous, …
Hi! I'm Lash, an American nomadic world traveler who's been traveling solo since 1998. I’m passionate about traveling the world nomadically and then sharing it all with you. I hope to inspire you to travel the world, to entertain you with tales from the road, and to help you reach your travel dreams. Welcome! 
