Travel Hacks – The Way We Roam

Plans Change! Be Ready When They Do

Thessa Koggel — Fri, 26 Sep 2025 05:01:59 +0000

Planning to stay in Thailand beyond 60 or 90 days? Learn how visa exemptions, extensions, and border runs work, plus tips to keep your travel plans flexible and stress-free.

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Live, work and breathe on Koh Tao

David Klos — Wed, 13 Aug 2025 07:33:00 +0000

Living, Working and Breathing on Koh Tao After Bangkok and Koh Samui, it was time for the next step: Koh Tao. This island isn’t just famous for diving. It’s famous for the people who never leave. Within weeks, we felt like part of the community. We dived, we learned, we moved into a jungle hideaway,

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Packing Stress? Here’s What We Could’ve Left at Home

Thessa Koggel — Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:15:27 +0000

We’ve only been in Thailand for a month, and we already know: some things could have definitely stayed at home. Other items have proven absolutely essential (so far).
In this blog, we share our packing strategy and how we’d tweak it if we had to do it all over again.

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From Chill Mode to Ambulance Adventure on Koh Samui

David Klos — Sun, 20 Jul 2025 11:00:22 +0000

What started as a lazy island day quickly turned into flashing lights, sirens, and an unexpected ambulance ride. In this blog, we share how a chilled-out morning on Koh Samui suddenly flipped into chaos — complete with hospital beds, cultural surprises, and lessons learned along the way. Sometimes travel throws you curveballs, and this was one of ours.

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