Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> ‘Abah Niesa’ be-friended me on Facebook. He’s a Malaysian man fond of hiking in Malaysia. When I was preparing to return to Kuala Lumpur recently, we agreed to finally meet and go hiking together. Hiking …
PHOTO GALLERY: COLORFUL KUALA LUMPUR PHOTOS For Christmas one of my gifts was Bethany Salvon’s fantastic How-to-photo book, Getting Out of Auto. As the title implies, it’s all about ditching ‘auto’ mode for various manual settings. Wow! A real eye opener understanding and using aperture, shutter speed and ISO. Literally within hours, I was taking photos never …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> FLIGHT ADVICE- GREAT REASONS TO LOVE SUPER-LONG FLIGHTS What’s there to love about super long flight schedules? Plenty! I hear lots of people moaning and groaning about long flights, even among veteran world travelers. Come …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> Connie Hum of ConnVoyage has been hopping out to explore the world since 2005. Based in NYC for many years, she eventually decided to leave in order to travel the world more extensively. Since late 2008, she’s …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> For those of you who checked out last week’s travel tip How to Avoid Jet Lag and might be wondering how well my technique worked for me on my recent 40-hour, 3-flight trip from USA to …
I’m thrilled to report that I just arrived back in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a few days ago. Since 2004, I’ve been in and out of KL several times per year as I travel around SE Asia. I’ve adapted my favorite spots to eat, sight see, cycle, shop, and play around the city, all of which …
Welcome! If it’s your first time here, you might want to subscribe to my free monthly newsletter. Thank you! —> My technique for dealing with jet lag from long flights between entirely different time zones is to simply avoid it. How to avoid jet lag? The following technique has worked for me repeatedly during 20 …
Kate McCulley, aka Adventurous Kate, is a young Boston woman and travel enthusiast, who finally plunged into world travels in early 2010- 2 years ago already- and has not looked back since. Kate’s been excitedly tromping around the globe ever since. Today we catch up with Kate to find out how/why she set off on her …
CULTURAL INSIGHTS: DISPELLING MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT CHINA For many years I’d been eager to travel through China. Simultaneously, I’d been equally hesitant to go because of my perceptions of China: packed with super-noisy, super-messy, phlegm-spitting Chinese citizens; shady aggressive business tactics; and great difficulty getting around. Those were images I’d developed both from other travelers’ stories …
PHOTO GALLERY: PENANG ISLAND ARCHITECTURE I’m thrilled to announce that I’m moving to Penang Island, Malaysia, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and one of my favorite places in SE Asia. I’ve visited Penang 3 or 4 times in recent years and was charmed each time by it’s amazing, diverse architecture, delicious food, great natural areas, …
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! 
