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Gotta Get Away Before I “Croix” Myself To Sleep

Gotta Get Away Before I “Croix” Myself To Sleep

by Calvin Sun | May 1, 2021 | Border Crossing, Fit for Foodies, May 2021: US Virgin Islands, United States, US Virgin Islands, Weekend Trips

  During the heydey of the pandemic, I was nominated to be one of the 100,000 Healthcare Workers to receive a pair of of roundtrip flight certificates offered by JetBlue. I almost forgot about the expiration dates, if it weren’t for a reminder in the middle...
Love In The Time Of Corona/COVID-19: A COVID Holiday Season

Love In The Time Of Corona/COVID-19: A COVID Holiday Season

by Calvin Sun | Jan 1, 2021 | Introspection, New York, You're Going to Miss It...

Thanksgiving 6 days ago on my birthday, I was having dinner with a few friends who simply wanted to catch up before a possible 2nd NYC lockdown; none of them knowing that it was my birthday at the time. I was okay with that; I guess as you get older — especially...
Return To Travel Project Phase 2: Five Days of Freediving Mag Bay by Puerto San Carlos

Return To Travel Project Phase 2: Five Days of Freediving Mag Bay by Puerto San Carlos

by Calvin Sun | Nov 8, 2020 | Mexico, November 2020: Baja California Sur

Unforgettable photos like these above were taken by my travel buddy on the trip Pier Nirandara.   On the shores of Magdalena Bay in the Pacific Ocean — far from the reaches of COVID-19 — there lies an isolated and remote fishing village called Puerto...
Return To Travel Project Phase 2 (COVID-19): First Flight To Baja California Sur

Return To Travel Project Phase 2 (COVID-19): First Flight To Baja California Sur

by Calvin Sun | Nov 1, 2020 | Mexico, November 2020: Baja California Sur

TLDR; Weigh the opportunity cost of travel (as a frontline healthcare worker I may burn out/can’t take care of anyone safely if I don’t recharge appropriately…and I have taken practice steps with small domestic trips before leaping on a trip abroad)...
You’re Going To Miss … The Great USA

You’re Going To Miss … The Great USA

by Calvin Sun | Sep 9, 2020 | Introspection, Post-travel Reflections, United States, You're Going to Miss It...

  Photos courtesy of Raubern Totanes and yours truly. By tradition and in the spirit of this very road trip across America (twice!) I write the following in a stream of consciousness Jack Kerouac style — so please forgive all run-ons and typos.   Press play and...
Zephyr-initely a Trip to Remember — From SF to NYC on Amtrak: The California Zephyr & Lake Shore Limited

Zephyr-initely a Trip to Remember — From SF to NYC on Amtrak: The California Zephyr & Lake Shore Limited

by Calvin Sun | Aug 28, 2020 | August 2020: The Great USA Trip (COVID-19), California, Illinois, Nebraska, New York, United States

    Day 1: Emeryville, CA   “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”   After we returned from LA yesterday night at 11pm, we turned in at our lodgings situated...
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