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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...

Videos From Angkor Wat

by Annah Kim | Jun 19, 2010 | Cambodia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Videos are finally here! These are the overdue videos from yesterday. We're covering every single Wat and Temple and Ruin over the course of three days by Tuk-Tuk. You saw my earlier videos of my experience at Angkor Wat, and here are the rest of them. I didn't take a...

A Sunset In Angkor Wat

by Calvin Sun | Jun 18, 2010 | Cambodia, How's the weather?, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Day 1 at Angkor Wat: We continue our journey from Angkor Wat to Angkor Thom, where again I couldn't help recall references to Myst: I just had to get that out. Lonely Planet says that Bayon in Angkor Thom is one of the "weirdest...

Guess That Nationality

by Annah Kim | Jun 18, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

On this journey so far, I have been told that I could be any of a number of different nationalities... 1. Korean - Calvin tells me that my face is what gives it away. And everywhere I go - people seem to already know - and I am greeted with Anyong Haseyo... 2....

Blogging And Fishing In Siem Reap

by Annah Kim | Jun 17, 2010 | Cambodia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

So no, I did not post anything last night on our adventures in Siem Reap.... The internet is fatally slow and any video I try and upload fails. I am currently sitting at a computer before we leave for Day 2 in hopes that I can maybe manage one video. On the subject of...

From Phnom Penh To Angkor Wat

by Calvin Sun | Jun 17, 2010 | Cambodia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

Last moments in Phnom Penh: We got up at 5 am and booked a cab to the Phnom Penh airport. There, a solitary Cambodian Air propeller-plane was waiting for us and maybe 10 other passengers: Flew over a pretty giant lake, so big I had to look it up on a...

From Royalty To The Killing Fields In Phnom Penh

by Calvin Sun | Jun 16, 2010 | Cambodia, Epiphanies on the Road, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

The horrors are in the stories. The stories are in the pictures. We started the day with the glorious Royal Palace, and ended it with the crimes of the Khmer Rouge: the S-21 Tuol Sleng Prison/Genocide Museum and the infamous Killing Fields. Let's start with the...

Tuk-Tuking Through Phnom Penh

by Annah Kim | Jun 16, 2010 | Cambodia, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

These are two videos from our arrival in the city yesterday evening. They both give a good sense of the vibe of the city. Videos of the Toul Sleng Museum: For some reason, Calvin took a while at the Toul Sleng Museum - I'm really just not sure how it could take that...

First Night In Phnom Penh

by Annah Kim | Jun 15, 2010 | Lessons Learned, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India

So I am exceptionally exhausted and am falling asleep as I type.. the internet is also incredibly slow... But I wanted to give you all a quick update. We are in Phnom Penh. And we just almost got taken home by Cambodian prostitutes. There were these three, friendly...

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