Samoa Apia-ness You Win, Samoa You Lose
After 2 days in Tonga, we were dropped off at the airport by our driver Charles and boarded a 1:50pm afternoon Air New Zealand flight to Auckland. Landing uneventfully at 5pm I had almost forgotten how difficult customs can be at this airport, as well as the 10...
Would You Like To Tonga?
After 2 days in Port Moresby, my local guide and driver Peter dropped me off for a 1:45pm flight out to Sydney where I arrived at 6pm local time. Quickly getting stamped in and sailing through customs this time, I took a 16 minute Uber ride to check into my free Chase...
Sending By Port Moresby Code
Time provides a lens, and seemingly random incidents focus them. I had a surgery 2 months ago to remove an undiagnosed (and now beaten) cancer that originally was offered to be this week. At the time I was faced at the moment to choose whether to have the surgery...
Almost Lon-done!
With 3 days of Paris behind us, Paul and I met up with Sujay right before our 3:12pm Eurostar train to London. But seeing as Paul and I got there at 3pm, it was still too late to make it in time for passport processing and check-in. Dammit Brexit! So we...
Olympic Paris
On the Tuesday after Tomorrowland, we enjoyed coffee and breakfast outside our hotel at Natural Caffé before checking out: Taking the 1:21pm Eurostar train from Brussels to Paris, we arrived at around 3:30pm, getting us to our beautiful and...
Tomorrowland 2024: Life
From Bruges the 14 of us boarded one of the frequent half an hourly trains to Brussels. Once back at Brussels train station and parting ways with Maria, Kenneth, Juliet, and Edgar who would eschew Tomorrowland for 5 days in Antwerp and Ghent, the...
All In Bruges
Quite nice to watch the movie In Bruges again on the plane while typing this, After 3 days in Amsterdam, our group of 10 headed out at 9am to catch a direct 10:08am train to Brussels, with a quick connection onwards to Bruges. Arriving at the...
When Amsterdam Meets the Monsoon II: A More Perfect Union
From the Dolomites our wonderful little group of 6 began our drive back to Venice Airport at 7am to drop off both our rental cars. We first said our goodbyes to Kenny and Ainsley (who had come only for the 3-4 days with us in the Dolomites), at first in the...
Where Are We Now?
Where Are We Next?
