Skip & Gabi Yetter: writers, travelers, foodies and former US media executives share their adventures, experiences and stories from their round the world travels after they leave the treadmill for a world of adventure
I know this silence – a gnawing, invasive quiet. An absence felt, creating an immense void. Suddenly, the rooms in our apartment are much bigger, the city less friendly, my life somehow emptier, less fun. It’s the sound that’s left behind when one…
» Read moreCool shower. Hot air. Heat wins. Dead calm night air at 3 a.m.. Squawking gecko outside my window. Score one for the gecko. Gorgeous young woman and tiny child kneel by the side of the road. Woman makes eye contact and smiles while baby cries, squ…
» Read moreThe room was 25 by 10 feet, crammed with five metal beds covered with blue rubber mattresses. Four of the beds were occupied: one by a semiconscious old man with a yellow fluid flowing into his arm via an intravenous tube; another by a middle-aged…
» Read moreI am so confused. Maybe it’s the “settling in” part of living in Southeast Asia, or the seasonal return of the oppressive Cambodian heat, or middle age, but while trying to wash my hair – not once, but twice in the same shower experience – I found…
» Read moreAfter living in Cambodia for nine months now, I’m quite used to driving along bumpy, potholed roads, staying in $10 a night guesthouses with no hot water and awakening to the earsplitting sounds of wedding celebrations outside my window. But last …
» Read moreI’d been having a lovely time until I saw him. It was my night alone in Siem Reap after Skip, Kirsty and Betsey went back to Phnom Penh and I stayed to meet my colleagues for a road trip to the provinces the following day. A night in a town filled…
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