Thursday, November 6, 2008

Leif Pettersen's Travel Blog

The only economics-related aspect of this post is that the author is a former MN Fed Reserve employee. He quit his job to become a travel writer, and his blogs are both informative and fun to read:

http://www.leifpettersen.com/

In another life, I think I want to be a travel writer. Here is my favorite post so far--love the pictures, especially of the gold Buddhas (Wat Traimit):

http://www.leifpettersen.com/leifinasia3/bangkok.htm

2 comments:

Slovebunny said...

OM you were up later then me...
Does that lifestyle come with be a powerful lawyer :)

Anonymous said...

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