Before I ever went to Thailand, the images I saw fell into two very different camps. There were the beaches, with impossibly blue water, long stretches of sand, and hammocks doing their best work. Then, there were the parties. Loud ones. Endless ones. Young ones. The kind that looked less like a holiday and more like an endurance sport. The contrast was hard to reconcile. Beautiful, yes. But also exhausting. Like many people during Covid, I passed the time by watching an impr

Damnoen Saduak Floating Market In 2018, my husband and I took our first trip to Southeast Asia, spending a month exploring Thailand’s...