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More Than Blood, “Badagry,” or Your College Degree…

More Than Blood, “Badagry,” or Your College Degree…

by Calvin Sun | Dec 30, 2023 | Crisis, Fail, Nigeria, Serendipitous!, Winter 2023: The Gulf of Guinea

 With 2 full days in Lagos behind us, the 3 of us began our West Africa roadtrip westwards with a 2 hour and 45 minute’s drive from Lagos to Badagry.About half an hour into the drive, Sapphire Residences texted me on What’s App saying they just found...
Dance to the Rethymno of the Night

Dance to the Rethymno of the Night

by Calvin Sun | Jul 24, 2023 | Crete, Fit for Foodies, Greece, July 2023: The Greek Epic, Serendipitous!

  On our 3rd day in Crete, we packed up our things and drove out east to Rethymno, a charming resort city between Chania and Heraklion.     Like many other cities on Crete, Rethymno was founded by the Minoans and was then occupied by the Romans, the...
Walking With a S’Ouaga-dougou

Walking With a S’Ouaga-dougou

by Calvin Sun | Feb 7, 2023 | Burkina Faso, February 2023: The Western Africa Hopper - Burkina Faso, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Guinea, Serendipitous!, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path

  This morning at 8am we left our hotel at Niorida and made an early trip back to Ouagadougou by first stopping at Laongo Granite Park.     Here, over 2000 sculptures carved into stone greet visitors, while also expressing the history, culture,...
Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch … to Manchester

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch … to Manchester

by Calvin Sun | Jun 2, 2022 | Crisis, Fail, May 2022: Wales, Serendipitous!, Wales

 Waking up in Caernarforn, we spent the morning exploring the castle grounds where the investiture of the Prince of Wales took place in 1911 and again in 1969 for Prince Charles.  After an hour here we then drove out for a detour to *inhale*...
You’ll Never Be “A-Lone”don!

You’ll Never Be “A-Lone”don!

by Calvin Sun | May 27, 2022 | Fit for Foodies, May 2022: Wales, Serendipitous!, United Kingdom, Walking Tours

  Can you believe it? Nearly 160+ countries around the world in the past 12 years and I still have no real posts on London!  And I think that’s because to even start writing a post about London is to try to do my home city of NYC justice in a...
Why Did the Chichen Itza Cross the Road?

Why Did the Chichen Itza Cross the Road?

by Calvin Sun | May 15, 2022 | Blitzkrieg!!!, How Did You Do That?, Mexico, Mo' Money Mo' Problems, Serendipitous!, Weekend Trips

    Probably the most visited site in the world that I have never been, until this weekend. Upon a destination wedding invitation last year by my friend Norman Chen, whom I last saw when we stopped in Chicago on our USA Road Trip back in August 2020....
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