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Who Jumps Out Of A Perfectly Good Airplane?

Who Jumps Out Of A Perfectly Good Airplane?

by Calvin Sun | Jan 16, 2018 | How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, New Zealand, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand

2 videos of what just happened this morning —   Rachel Xu’s Edit: And so she inspired me to do my own  The music captures how I really felt when I fell into the sky:   I couldn’t ask for a better way to put a dot on the...
Milford Sound By Land, Sea, & Air

Milford Sound By Land, Sea, & Air

by Calvin Sun | Jan 15, 2018 | How Did You Do That?, New Zealand, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2017: Australia & New Zealand

  My favorite desktop background just got served:   This morning we groggily woke up at 8am to catch our 8:30am Kiwi Experience Bus for our daytrip to Milford Sound. Luckily our bus picked us up from our (Nomad’s) hostel’s front door so we...
Leaving For Hong Kong In 6 Hours

Leaving For Hong Kong In 6 Hours

by Calvin Sun | Dec 16, 2010 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Hong Kong, Pre-travel Preparations, What to Pack

Stayed up late last night to do some bare bones packing: Toothbrush 2 shirts 2 pieces of underwear 2 pairs of socks 2 pairs of pants A keffiyeh A fleece A camera A pair of shoes   I’ll be in the air for about 20 hours and on the ground for around 24 hours,...
Leaving For Hong Kong In 6 Hours

We’re Launching!

by Calvin Sun | May 24, 2010 | Pre-travel Preparations, Summer 2010: Southeast Asia & India, United States

Look around…the layout has changed! Thanks to Brian Foo of GiveLoop, we have a new design, so have fun exploring! I’ll be working out the kinks in the meantime, but I guess with a week away from departure, we can finally give this blog a proper welcome. In...

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