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Grenada Más

by Calvin Sun | November 4, 2025 | Grenada, October 2025: Pirates of the Caribbean's At World's End | 0 Comments

🇬🇩 190 down. 3 to go. After our 3 day stay in Dominica, we took a long hour-and-a-half drive back to the airport from our Portsmouth lodgings, stopping for a quick photo opportunity along the way. Dominica's airport is tiny. You...

Dominica-n’t Miss This

by Calvin Sun | November 1, 2025 | Dominica, October 2025: Pirates of the Caribbean's At World's End, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

From St. Vincent, we boarded InterCaribbean Airways JY 717 at 12:20pm. Their new airport, however, was built just 8 years ago and still has some operational quirks. The staff double-printed my first leg itinerary from St. Vincent to Barbados without including...

Dead Men Tell No Layovers: St. Vincent & The Grenadines in 12 Hours

by Calvin Sun | October 29, 2025 | Layovers, October 2025: Pirates of the Caribbean's At World's End, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 0 Comments

Fresh off a quick overnight in Grenada (courtesy of a free JetBlue voucher from last October's Welcome to Chinatown gala), we touched down at Maurice Bishop International Airport at 1:53pm. This marked the beginning of a 3-country Caribbean...

Getting Away With Robbinsville: The Akshardham Redemption

by Calvin Sun | October 6, 2025 | Camping, Layovers, New Jersey, October 2025: Camping in Robbinsville | 0 Comments

One of my more unique camping trips to have monsooned; this is what happens when you plan a camping trip months in advance just to visit a temple arguably worth seeing as a world-class destination. I was stuck at work all day Friday as Eddie took the initiative...

A Quick Halifax Check

by Calvin Sun | September 12, 2025 | Layovers, Lessons Learned, September 2025: Newfoundland to Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Walking Tours | 0 Comments

After two days in Saint-Pierre (and a turbulent ferry ride to Miquelon and back), we boarded an hour-and-a-half direct Air Saint-Pierre 9am flight to Halifax, landing around 9:30am local time (Halifax runs an hour behind Saint-Pierre), Our onward...

Miquelon Impossible

by Calvin Sun | September 11, 2025 | Doctor in the House, September 2025: Newfoundland to Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

Sometimes the most spontaneous detours leave the strongest impressions. That morning in Saint Pierre, we hadn't planned on leaving the island. But after completing two walking tours around St. Pierre and checking the ferry schedule, we realized we could still...

48 Hours in a Little Saint-Pierre-ce of France

by Calvin Sun | September 11, 2025 | Saint Pierre and Miquelon, September 2025: Newfoundland to Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

After three days soaking in St. John's charm, we dropped off our rental car at YYT Saint John's airport to catch the rare 5pm direct flight (PH1127) via Air Saint-Pierre to Saint-Pierre & Miquelon: one of the few weekly connections between Newfoundland and...

Don’t Be Dildo-Dallying

by Calvin Sun | September 9, 2025 | Canada, September 2025: Newfoundland to Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

While based in St. John's, we took a spontaneous day trip by rental car to the now-famous town of Dildo. You'll know when you arrive; they're incredibly proud of their distinctive name. Though a vocal minority has repeatedly raised referendums to...

St. John’s: The Eastern Edge of Everything Everywhere All At Once

by Calvin Sun | September 9, 2025 | Canada, September 2025: Newfoundland to Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Serendipitous!, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

Months ago I decided to gift myself a week off after Labor Day...simply because I could. After a year as wild as this past one, I craved actual and intentional self-prioritization to restore some balance. Finding fares under $200, I booked a morning departure:...

Singapore Airlines Business Class FRA-JFK

by Calvin Sun | August 5, 2025 | Flying Fancy, Germany, Summer 2025: The Long Road to Berlin | 0 Comments

After a slow morning walk and talking about our villain (antihero?) origin stories in Berlin, I hugged Daniela and Gabe goodbye, hopped on the tram for a few stops, went underground for the metro, and made it back to the hostel in time for a 1:30pm check out. Nisha,...

40 Hours In Taiwan

by Calvin Sun | Jul 2, 2010 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Taiwan

...begins now. My plan: Flight from Bali, Indonesia to Taiwan at 3:10pm Arrive in Taiwan at 8:30pm Leave Taiwan about 39 hours later at 11:00am Flight from Taiwan to Surabaya, Indonesia at 1:00pm Arrive in Surabaya, Indonesia at 7:30pm The irony is that I did...

Day 1.5 In Bali

by Annah Kim | Jul 1, 2010 | Indonesia, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Internet is still slow... I'm hoping to upload a 32 second video that has taken 35 minutes so far to upload 10%... in fact, the upload hasn't progressed for the past 10 minutes. Bear with me if you don't see any videos for a while. In any case... Today I took a surf...

BAYWATCH: Bali Edition

by Calvin Sun | Jul 1, 2010 | How's the weather?, Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Bali is as nice as you could imagine. I really have nothing to update you on with words (do you really want to hear about exposing my naked body to Ultraviolet rays of the sun as my dying skin cells vomit out melanin and Vitamin D? No, I don't either.), so I'll...

A Change Of Plans In The Itinerary

by Calvin Sun | Jun 30, 2010 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Taiwan

A few updates on our itinerary: Because I found out that one of my cousins is getting married this weekend, I will be leaving for Taipei, Taiwan for 36 hours. I will leave Bali, Indonesia on July 3rd, attend the wedding reception on July 4th in Taipei, and then return...

Beautiful Beaches And Silly Accidents

by Annah Kim | Jun 30, 2010 | Fail, Indonesia, Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

So, last night, we all went for a walk on the beach.. we walked for a good two hours (by accident) and afterwards, when Caitlin and Calvin walked back to the hotel, I decided to stay and just hang out on the sand like the true Cape Cod beach bum that I am. The tide...

Internet Connections

by Annah Kim | Jun 30, 2010 | Fail, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

So guess what... the internet is again horrendous. I have about 12 videos from Penang and Kuala Lumpur that you will not see for a very long time. I also have a few videos already from Bali.. Do not expect any media postings from me at any point in the near future. I...

Bali

by Calvin Sun | Jun 30, 2010 | Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

We're in Bali. Wish you were here.

Arrival In Bali Minus Some Garments

by Annah Kim | Jun 30, 2010 | Fail, Malaysia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

So - I had asked the previous hotel if they would do my laundry. We dropped it off in the morning and it was left for us in our room when we returned at the end of the day. I looked inside to find that I was missing: 3 under-garments 3 sports bras 1 white tank top 1...

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