Locals And Local Life In Strange New Foreign Countries | Page 10 of 10

Traveling like a local. Living like a local. Learning from the locals. When you embrace the locals and local life, no matter how different it may be from what you are used to, that is when the real adventures begin 😉

As a fan of “slow travel” and spending multiple months exploring a single country. You cannot live out of a hotel when you travel like that — you have two options:
Rent a place in a central destination living as a local while taking multiple short trips around the country; or
Spent a week per city and just keep slow hopping from one destination to the next, all the while traveling as a local.

Here is a partial collection of some of my adventures, escapades, exploits, mishaps and misunderstandings with locals around the globe over the last few years. (Many more to come, no worries about that!)

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LBFM Vs OOSM

Some of you may have heard me mention the acronym LBFMPBFR prior to my departure to Southeast Asia, a term I was introduced to by some older friends who spent most of the 1980s stationed in the Philippines and quickly adopted into my vocabulary. It is an absolutely wonderful term, commonly known as LBFM for … Read More

Getting All These Useless Numbers From Girls In Tokyo

So we have been collecting phone numbers and email addresses from a lot of the chicks here in the amazing Tokyo clubs. ‘Course, the only problem is I don’t have a Japanese phone. And I have tried emailing but no luck. You see, all the cellphones here in Tokyo are linked to email email addresses. … Read More

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