When I tell you where I ate my 10 best durians of the year, I’m telling you a story about me. “Best durian” are deeply personal. They’re where I was and what I was doing and what was important to me when I ate them. This post, The 10 Best Durian of 2017 is essentially […]
Long Term in Sri Lanka: The Negatives | Travel Tips
This is the second post in a two part series talking about the pros and cons of living or traveling long term in Sri Lanka. Rob and I moved there in April, with the intention of staying for either six months, a year, or forever. Obviously that didn’t work out. Yesterday I posted all the […]
Sri Lanka Long-Term: The Positives | Travel Tips
In July, I announced that we were leaving Sri Lanka. I promised in that post that I would share our experiences as foreigners interested in purchasing land and settling, in Sri Lanka long-term. Since then, I’ve had a lot of emails reminding me that I need to do this. So here’s a list of all […]
Leaving Sri Lanka
A few months ago, I announced that Rob and I were taking the big step and Moving to Asia. We were incredibly excited. It was so perfect – like all our dreams were coming true. But then Rob’s job offer from Michael Arnstein fell through after only 2 months. It breaks my heart to say […]
Moving to Asia
Yup, you read that right. Rob and I are moving to Southeast Asia. After a brief stint in the United States, where we depended on frozen durian in a box, we will be soon be living in the heart of durian country. Are we excited? Heck yes! Be on the lookout for more durian stories […]
Anuradhapura Durian Desert
Durian season is pretty much over. There are a few regions that still have some durian, but it’s tough to find and the quality is questionable. We goofed and spent our time in Vietnam, when we should have been here in Sri Lanka! Everything happens for a reason, and it’s not like we totally missed […]
Durian Seed Water
There is a curious practice involving durian seeds here in Sri Lanka, although it’s hard to get the full story from the winking old men who talk about it. They’ll tell me about half of the story, and then giving me a strange look out of the corner of their eyes, the old men draw […]
Limping to Sri Lanka’s Good Durian
We eat a lot of fruit. Here in Sri Lanka, we’re really enjoying the coconuts, golden beauties that cost only $0.028 since each! We’re going pretty wild on coconuts. To make a long story short, last night Rob was chopping open a coconut. It was a hard one, and the small cleaver he was using […]
Rob goes Sri Lankan!
Two days ago we landed in Sri Lanka, hoping to catch the tail-end of durian season. I’m definitely going to miss the Philippines and all the friends we have there, but Sri Lanka has an exotic, mystical flavor that’s so enticing I think we’ll be sufficiently distracted. To get into the Indian-vibe, Rob decided to […]
