Just came from: Bangkok, Thailand One Night in Bangkok Chiang Mai & Chiang Rai, Thailand Temples Galore in the Countryside Next stop: Huay Xai, Laos (coming soon) A Familiar Countryside and a Sleeper Train It’s becoming quite clear that my camera phone isn’t cutting it. We had hopped on an overnight sleeper train to Chiang Mai,...
Just came from: Tokyo, Japan | One Night Without a Hotel Bangkok, Thailand One Night in Bangkok & One Missed Night in Bangkok Oh Bangkok…. I had 2.5 days there and it wasn’t like anything I had ever imagined. First of all, it is absolutely massive. At a listed 8+ million population, it’s bigger than New...
Just came from: New York, New York, Big City of Dreams! Tokyo, Japan One Night...Without a Hotel The Journey Begins I need to come clean…I have a problem: I regularly squeeze far too much into my travels, and my overnight ‘stopover’ without a hotel in Tokyo was a shining example. I was on my United flight...
Southeast Asia The Inspiration for Saintly Bags The extremely rewarding journey in creating Saintly was unforeseen, and it was borne out of a trip to Southeast Asia. In October of 2012, I had decided on a new opportunity by switching firms. In the finance world, this often involves a 'garden leave', which required me to not work...
Dandy X Saintly Bags LOCAL When you measure the worth of a product, what comes to mind? Brand names? Louis Vuitton? Gucci? How expensive it is? WEEKEND FLING For me, the worth of a product comes from it’s story. I want to know who made the product and where it was crafted. When a product...