by Calvin Sun | Jan 26, 2018 | Australia, Epiphanies on the Road, New Zealand, Post-travel Reflections, You're Going to Miss It...
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,...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 16, 2018 | How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, New Zealand, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand
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...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 15, 2018 | How Did You Do That?, New Zealand, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand
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...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 15, 2018 | New Zealand, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand
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...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 13, 2018 | Doctor in the House, Fail, New Zealand, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand
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,...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 12, 2018 | New Zealand, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand
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...