You’re Going To Miss … The Down Under
Please take your time reading the post with the music . . . . . . it's a long song (and do listen to all of it!). “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” You're going to miss the moments leading up to first introductions, matching the faces...
Flying ANA Business Class From Sydney To NYC Via Tokyo
Time to end this trip with class, business class that is -- since I'm due to work an overnight shift in the ER 4 hours after I'm scheduled to land in JFK, I might as well be as rested as possible.Transferring 90,000 Chase Ultimate Rewards points I acquired...
Who Jumps Out Of A Perfectly Good Airplane?
2 videos of what just happened this morning -- Rachel Xu's Edit:And so she inspired me to do my own The music captures how I really felt when I fell into the sky: I couldn't ask for a better way to put a dot on the exclamation point to...
Milford Sound By Land, Sea, & Air
My favorite desktop background just got served: This morning we groggily woke up at 8am to catch our 8:30am Kiwi Experience Bus for our daytrip to Milford Sound. Luckily our bus picked us up from our (Nomad's) hostel's front door so we didn't have...
Long Live The Queenstown
A memorable evening began with an equally memorable morning: I finally got a chance to add crème fraîche and chopped seaweed to my version of Gordon Ramsay's Sublime Scrambled Eggs: Because we got in a day early, we spent the entire today finally...
The Drive From Christchurch To Queenstown
Our 8 hour drive from Christchurch to Queenstown was pretty straightforward. But then there was all this: We also stopped by at a local horseback riding event for a quick ice cream break on the outskirts of Queenstown. Unfortunately,...
Christchurch: Remnants From An Earthquake
After an 8 hour drive from Picton and checking into our lodgings at Dorset House, we freshened up for a few minutes before heading back out for dinner at Shanghai Street Dumplings a few miles away. It was much needed meal after a drive that could've been 3 hours...
Crossing From New Zealand’s North Island To South Island
Last night we befriended a fellow New Yorker (and certified sommelier!) named Elif last night while dining at Ortega Restaurant, where she then joined us for a shisha session and a dance party that lasted into the wee hours of the night. Thanks for making us all...