by Calvin Sun | Jun 19, 2022 | Fail, Flying Fancy, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, June 2022: Svalbard, Lessons Learned, Norway, Svalbard, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Postponed 3 times over 3 years, we’re finally making this voyage happen. It may not be starting off pretty once we arrived, but what matters is that we’re here. Using miles for my first voyage on SAS Airlines, I spent only $70 to snag...
by Calvin Sun | Feb 7, 2022 | Belgium, Flying Fancy, Layovers, Serendipitous!, Turkey
I like full circles. So 10 and a half years ago I took this photo: This week I’m back: And unlike 28 hours in its airport, I decided to spend 28 hours outside of it to see how my feelings of Istanbul may have changed. Nothing...
by Calvin Sun | Sep 4, 2019 | Crisis, Doctor in the House, Flying Fancy, France, Réunion, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Dearest readers, I’ll begin by documenting the longest domestic flight in the world on business class from Réunion to Paris. And then I’ll end with how I forced an emergency landing in Halifax, Nova Scotia for an in-flight medical...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 31, 2019 | Flying Fancy, Mauritius, Summer 2019: Off The Eastern Coast Of Africa, What Dreams May Come
After 2 days in the Seychelles, we headed onwards to more of island paradise in Mauritius. I first heard of Mauritius back in 2009 when a former girlfriend of mine idealized it as her top honeymoon destination. It has never escaped my mind since, and after so...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 26, 2019 | Fail, Flying Fancy, How Did You Do That?, Madagascar, Summer 2019: Off The Eastern Coast Of Africa, What Dreams May Come
MADAGASCAR! We’re here! The original plan was to arrive to Madagascar directly from Mayotte via a 4:40pm Ewa Air flight ZD 210. That would’ve been a personal accomplishment as about a few months ago I was struggling to book these flights...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 20, 2019 | Flying Fancy, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Summer 2019: Off The Eastern Coast Of Africa, Tanzania
For our 3rd day in Zanzibar, we took it easy and spent it on massages, lounging at the Park Hyatt, shopping, and essentially making the long wait before heading over for our 8:40pm Air Tanzania flight to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). There we...
