• Buddhist Meditation Retreat – Chuck’s Experience

    For years, I’ve been intrigued by meditation. I’ve heard about the benefits, including relief from anxiety to better sleep, but never really knew how to start. Well, where better to try it out in Thailand? There are many different meditation experiences here, but I went with one organized by the…

  • Sammy’s Organic Thai Cooking School

    One of the bloggers I read took her kids to a cooking class with Sammy’s Organic Thai Cooking School while they were visiting Chiang Mai.  Her kids are even younger than mine yet they were able to help in the kitchen some and it seemed like such a fun and…

  • Red Chili Cooking School

    While my mom was visiting, we decided to take a cooking class.  We went with the Red Chili Cooking School which had nothing but 5 star ratings on TripAdvisor.  The instructor Aon was awesome and deserves every 5 star rating. He has a different set menu for each day of…

  • Thai Silk Village (Silkworms & Factory)

    One of the things I wanted to take the kids to was a silk factory.  Funny enough, the materials I’m using to homeschool actually talked about silk in Asia and how silk is made.  So I was able to tie a trip to Thai Silk Village into an educational opportunity…