Solutions for 10 slow travel challenges.
Author: Ellen
Budget slow traveler in early retirement. Sober, breast cancer warrior, now living flat. Loves chocolate, coffee, stories, puppies.

Kortan’s Crib: Bangkok edition
See inside a $700 Airbnb rental in a good location of Thailand’s capital.

Review: GuruWalk Bangkok free walking tour
Our first ‘free’ tour in the COVID era.

Money shock in Bangkok
Money down the drain in city life.

Earth Vagabonds restart slow travel lifestyle
First stop: Bangkok!

Earth Vagabonds to leave the Philippines
We are changed. We are older, and hopefully wiser.

The adorable young boy with a pellet in his ear
Another charitable effort by Earth Vagabonds.

3 new travel hacks for the ‘new normal’
Beat marketing trickery and save money.

Broken toe on Boracay & the Cleveland connection
God has a sense of humor in this small world we call Earth.

Foreign tourism opens in Philippines
Three requirements get you here.

Budget vacation to Boracay Island
Ellen splurges for once.

Boracay Island in the Philippines
So beautiful, despite pandemic problems.

How to hand wash clothes, sheets
Not difficult, but it’s time consuming and strains the back.

The boy on the beach
Just a story.

What progressive eyeglasses cost in the Philippines
You will be amazed.