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Meet The Wale-rs!

Meet The Wale-rs!

by Calvin Sun | May 12, 2022 | Introductions, November 2020: Baja California Sur

  I miss the freedom and chaos of the open road. And from the USA, we jump the pond for an off-the-beaten drive across Wales. Our return monsooners: Jeanette “Chief Risky Driver” Wong: previous 4 time monsooner to Cyprus, The Balearic Islands, Sardinia, and...
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)...

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