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Dear Daughters,

by Calvin Sun | August 15, 2026 | Post-travel Reflections, What Dreams May Come, You're Going to Miss It... | 4 Comments

Dear daughters, In a rare moment of peace as your mom was recovering in the PACU and you were down the hall in the NICU, I found myself thinking about everyone over the years who made judgments about my lifestyle and said to my face: "Sure, you've been to every...

We Had Twins

by Calvin Sun | July 26, 2026 | Crisis, Doctor in the House, Let me tell you a Story..., Serendipitous!, United States, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come | 0 Comments

Identical twins. This was a birth by a thousand cuts. A story as old as time, for two lives as new as right now, where spontaneity gets sandwiched between a relentless tango with death. They were born after one of the hardest chapters of our lives: a rare...

Tomorrowland Babies

by Calvin Sun | July 25, 2026 | Festivals | 0 Comments

Four Tomorrowlands in, and this is the first I'll be writing about a trip I planned without having gone. What gives? It's not as if I didn't want to: Right as 40+ of my monsooners were heading off to Belgium, I was in a hospital room in Queens, meeting my...

Where Do You Go When You’ve Already Been Everywhere?

by Calvin Sun | May 17, 2026 | Camping, Epiphanies on the Road, Fit for Foodies, May 2026: Bobo's Farm, New York, Post-travel Reflections | 0 Comments

Where does one of the youngest most traveled person in the world still travel to after they've been to nearly every country in the world? Home, of course. I've hitchhiked onboard trains through the endless expanse of The Sahel, slept in guesthouses in...

It Zermatt-ers A Lot You Followed Through!

by Calvin Sun | April 3, 2026 | Border Crossing, Crisis, Fit for Foodies, Flying Fancy, How's the weather?, Serendipitous!, Spring 2026: French & Swiss Alps, Switzerland, Weekend Trips, What Dreams May Come | 0 Comments

Any normal person would have headed home after 4 consecutive days of 6+ hours of skiing black diamond powder at 3,330 meters followed by six hours of raving in a blizzard. But I am not a normal person. Unlike most people, I don't procrastinate on fulfilling...

Alpe “d’Huez” in Charge Here? We Couldn’t Wait Until Tomorrow, for Tomorrowland Winter

by Calvin Sun | March 28, 2026 | Festivals, France, How's the weather?, Spring 2026: French & Swiss Alps, The Nightlife | 0 Comments

We made it to a Tomorrowland Aftermovie! Click on the YouTube video below where it starts right where you see us dancing to Alok; me on the left, and Patricia right in the center in her lavender hoodie as the video slows in on her/us (well, really just her)....

Why Not “Disfrutar”?

by Calvin Sun | March 23, 2026 | Fit for Foodies, Flying Fancy, France, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Introspection, Layovers, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, Serendipitous!, Spain, Spring 2026: French & Swiss Alps | 0 Comments

We got a lot going on in the world right now: There's now a war in Iran, the funding bill for our DHS still hasn't passed, and the entirety of the TSA has been working without a paycheck for the past month. With the war, I'd imagine both the region and Emirates...

Meet the Tomorrowland Winter Monsooners!

by Calvin Sun | March 2, 2026 | Introductions | 0 Comments

Why do Tomorrowland just once a year when you can do it twice AND ski/snowboard at the same time? Introducing the following returning monsooners for this iteration of our favorite annual festival. Welcome back those returning with me for their 2nd, 3rd, or even...

All Aboard the Santa Claus Express!

by Calvin Sun | February 10, 2026 | February 2026: Lapland, Finland, Fit for Foodies, Flying Fancy, Lapland, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

I woke up to an Arctic sunrise again, this time to send Mel off on her early flight back at 7:30am; she had to return a day before the rest of us. After she left in an Uber to the airport, I cooked the last of what was left in the fridge at the Airbnb and saw...

For Richer, For Polar

by Calvin Sun | February 9, 2026 | February 2026: Lapland, Finland, Fit for Foodies, How's the weather?, Lapland, Serendipitous!, Way Way Off the Beaten Path | 0 Comments

I just woke up to this Arctic sunrise before everyone else in the Airbnb. I took the time to make some scrambled eggs for breakfast, brewed the coffee, and leisurely sat down to write this blog post as I waited for the rest of the group to come to life. What a...

SOUTH KOREA (Annah)

by Annah Kim | Jul 11, 2010 | South Korea, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

In Korea!And everyone thinks that I'm Korean! (which I am - but it's just hard when you don't speak a lick of Korean)Seoul is really cool from what I've seen so far. I am currently with Charlina Ahn - a fellow moho - at her house on the Northern end of the city....

Singapore In A Nutshell

by Calvin Sun | Jul 10, 2010 | Doctor in the House, Fit for Foodies, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, Singapore, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, The Nightlife

Singapore should have been our intermediary between the Western world and the in-your-faceness of Southeast Asia...but instead we saw it as a reminder of the excesses of this place called the U.S. of A. Convenient and thoroughly designed subway systems, speedy...

Singapore Nights: Sleep Is For The Weak

by Calvin Sun | Jul 10, 2010 | India, Serendipitous!, Singapore, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Uncategorized Stories, What Dreams May Come

It's a night I'll never forget. After spending 24/7 with each other for 40 consecutive days in 11+ countries, it was finally time to say goodbye: my travel partner, Annah, just left for Korea. For the first time in 40 days, I'm alone. But hold on, not really...

A Day In Singapore

by Calvin Sun | Jul 10, 2010 | How's the weather?, Public Transportation, Singapore, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Inside Lau Pa Sat (i.e. hawker-food central). The food you get here is delicious! Head up to the top of Singapore's "Big Durian": Enjoy a view of Singapore from the Big Durian: Or fancy a view from the newly opened...

Singapore Lovin’

by Calvin Sun | Jul 10, 2010 | Singapore, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Singapore is beautiful place. So this is the last day Annah and I have together before we part ways. Unfortunately she got hit with either a virus or food poisoning this morning, so we need to make sure she gets better before her flight tonight....

Arrival In Singapore

by Calvin Sun | Jul 9, 2010 | Singapore, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Uncategorized Stories

No pictures because frankly, the moment we landed from our flight from Jakarta, we haven't stopped moving. Met up with my friend from college, BX, who showed us around Lau Pa Sat, Raffles City, Merlion Park, City Hall, Raffles City Mall, Marina Bay Sands, Marina Bay...

Jakarta On Video

by Annah Kim | Jul 8, 2010 | Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

New Friend we made at the hostel with a FlipCam! Mosque Istiqlal:

So Close And Yet So Far Away

by Annah Kim | Jul 8, 2010 | Indonesia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, Uncategorized Stories

So this morning, I got to upload a lot of videos but the computer was so slow that it just pooped out on me before I could post them... Sorry! On a different note- Caitlin left our trip this morning at 4am to get to the airport at which point she was detained and...

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