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Top 10 Blog Posts From The Last 10 Years
WOW. Where to even start. It has been a wild roller-coaster ride of a decade, full of unexpected ups and downs, extreme twists and turns with a few loops and barrel rolls thrown in just for good luck. A few of these wild adventures were written about here, but most never made it past Twitter. (Hint: now might be a good time to follow me. Better a few years late than never, right?) 😉
How To Get A Job In The California Marijuana Fields
Worth over $2 billion annually, California‘s world-renowned wines used to be its number one cash crop. They’ve been surpassed — err…blown away — by the marijuana industry, which according to…
Why Most Tourists Never Return To Vietnam
Many people love Vietnam. Many others, particularly long-term travelers, don’t care for it and feel that one trip was more than enough. After all no matter how much or how…
Deported Because Of A Tweet: My Immigration Horror Story
As I type this I am locked in a cell in an Indonesian detention center. Why you may ask? Surely someone who has been traveling the world non-stop for five…
Indonesia By Motorcycle: How, Why, Where, Advice & Tips
Indonesia is an amazingly vast and impressive country. When I first arrived here I thought one month would be enough. HA! How wrong I was. Six months later and I…
Top 20 Exotic, Weird & Delicious Fruit in Asia
New foods and traveling go hand in hand with each other. While meat lovers and vegans will never both agree on which foreign foods are delicious, everyone loves fruit. Plus…
Babi Hutan (Sinalau Bakas) A Sabah Delicacy
Best. Food. Ever. After the last episode of Derek Eats That! featuring the worst food ever — cockroach — it seems only fitting that this week I indulge in something…
10 Things You Don’t Know About Sri Lanka
One of the best things about visiting a new country is learning new things. No matter how much research you do or how many people you ask, there are always…
Derek Eats That! Cockroaches
“Don’t be afraid of what I eat — be afraid of what I won’t eat.” Of course eating cockroaches is not quite as delicious as you might think. (And this…
How Long-Term Travel Changes People Forever
Last week I celebrated my ten year nomadiversary of quitting my job to travel the world. Ten years of long-term travel have taught me more than I learned in the…
How Long-Term Travel Ruins Your Life
Pssst! Hey! Yes, you. Come closer. I have a secret to share with you. Something that everyone should be aware of. TRAVEL RUINS YOUR LIFE. It’s more addictive than heroin…