The Philippines is so beautiful you may find it hard to decide where to go. In this guest post, 17 Filipino travel bloggers give you some recommendations. Check them out!
How to Save a Child, Save a Fat Guy & Get the Best Sleep of your Life
This Christmas will be different. Over the past two years I have taken on a number of unusual jobs in my Around the World in 80 jobs quest, from being a Christmas tree salesman in the USA to pouring Germany’s holiday drink – Gluhwein – in Europe’s famous Christmas markets. However, this year’s holiday season I have decided to go …
Volunteering in the Philippines: WTF to go and make a difference
Welcome to the jungle…the urban jungle of Manila that is. Manila, for those of you not hip with capitals, geography, things not lathered in butter or featured on reality shows for my American friends – Manila is the capital of the Philippines. I have never been to the Philippines before, but after visiting 90 something countries, I had to stop …
Can You Really Make Money Teaching English in Japan? Gaijin vs Godzilla edition
So you want to travel to overseas, explore the mystic unknown, and meet exotics natives in far away and then kill them – no wait – you need to join the navy for that. How about just the first part then? The diving into the living history and adventuring overseas part? And maybe we should throw in a little bit …
The Reality of Tiger Temple: My Final Thoughts on my Volunteering Experiment
) Okay. So anyone who follows my site on the regular (high five by the way) may be perplexed at the abrupt end of my Tiger Temple posts. Well the truth of the matter is that I intended on writing a 20-something post series on it, however, whether it be my ADD, simply losing interest, lack of audience enthusiasm at …
Can You Really Make Money Teaching English in China? Enter the Dragon
Well that magical time has come yet again my favorite world traveling ponies to drop some knowledge of working overseas, making money while traveling, and most importantly, meeting exotic natives in mystic lands. And yet again, as if right on cue, I must defer to someone who has a greater knowledge than myself on the subject – what a true …
Volunteering with Animals in Southeast Asia: I am Dr. DooLittle
When I first introduced my month long volunteering at Tiger Temple experiment, I breezily mentioned that there may in fact be a couple of other animals lurching about other than tigers. I also may have casually let slip that there are bears and lions and cows and a bunch of other shit I can’t quite name per say. They actually …