by Calvin Sun | Mar 22, 2022 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Crisis, Dubai, Egypt, March 2022: Central Iraq, Jordan, Egypt, Serendipitous!, United Arab Emirates
Adventure is a mindset, not a destination.Last month after I had spoken at Mercersburg Academy and returned to DC, Kimmy, Ihita and I debated what we could do with our extra 4 days after Iraq now that Syria would likely be once again postponed. It was...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 7, 2019 | Autumn 2019: Egypt Redux - 10 Years Later, Camping, Crisis, Doctor in the House, Egypt, Epiphanies on the Road, Fail, How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Serendipitous!, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
Once in a while, I’m blessed to write up and release a blogpost that will stand the test of time in my memories. This is one of those posts. The irony of today rests in the fact that after a decade visiting 180 countries and...
by Calvin Sun | Nov 28, 2019 | Autumn 2019: Egypt Redux - 10 Years Later, Egypt, Introspection, Post-travel Reflections
Of all the layovers I’ve had the past 10 years that have brought me back to the same places over and over again, I’ve never once stepped foot back in Egypt since my 2010 trip that started it all. Fateful isn’t it? And I knew the day I would...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 7, 2010 | Egypt, Epiphanies on the Road, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2009: Egypt
Only mere moments of a time prior, I had been paralyzed by fear in Cairo, unwilling to leave the train station because I was so afraid of wandering around a foreign country alone and without a plan.But Cairo is where I would harness an impetuously...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 29, 2009 | Crisis, Egypt, How Did You Do That?, Post-travel Reflections, Public Transportation, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2009: Egypt
If it’s not already playing, press play. And then start reading. 3am. My eyes open to an unfamiliar ceiling, and in the darkness I blindly salvage the little of what’s left of my short term memory. I glance around: I think I’m in...
