Originally from Manchester, England, I moved to Los Angeles over twenty years ago. There was a time where I would have been content to spend the rest of my life acquiring possessions, and didn't really care to venture outside of California, let alone the United States. As I got to my forties (call it mid-life crisis if you will), I came increasingly curious about the rest of the world and developed a desire to travel through Asia. I am now 47 and about to board a plane to Bangkok, that is the start of journey to somewhere - I really have no idea where yet! After Thailand, Cambodia, Laos and Vi... full info