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A Traveler’s Favorite Cities: Part 1

Last week I was sitting down at a bar with an acquaintance and over a pint of beer we chatted about life overseas. Simultaneously, we hit each other with a broad yet hard to summarize question, “what are your favorite cities?” I stewed over that question for a little too long and my answers went in circles. Finally, I landed on my top five and rambled off versions of the following reasons.  Tokyo I was…

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Bangkok, Thailand

“The City of Angels,” known in Thailand as Krung Thep, is a crowded metropolis built on the swampy shores of the Chao Phraya River. Once a small trading post for a mighty kingdom, it is now one of the largest and fastest growing cities in the world. Politically divided, polarizing, loud, colorful, chaotic, exclusive yet embracing, and full of equal parts spiritual divinity and exuberant hedonism; there is nowhere like it on earth. I came…

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