by Calvin Sun | Sep 15, 2018 | Fit for Foodies, Japan, September 2018: Japan, Walking Tours, What Dreams May Come
“I compared it to taking my first acid trip: Nothing was ever the same for me. I just wanted more of it. If I had to agree to live in one country, or even one city, for the rest of my life, never leaving it, I’d pick Tokyo in a second.” – Anthony...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 8, 2017 | How Did You Do That?, How's the weather?, Mongolia, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come, Winter 2016: The Trans-Mongolian & Tibet
Photo credit to Melissa Weinmann for the photo above. Hello from a balmy -15ºF (-22ºC) in the coldest capital city on the planet: Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia! After chugging along from Irkutsk, Russia, our attendants woke us all up at 6:15am, giving us about...
by Calvin Sun | Oct 22, 2016 | How Did You Do That?, October 2016: Romania, Public Transportation, Romania, Walking Tours, Weekend Trips
Another weekend off, another weekend away. And what more fitting than a visit to Dracula’s castle in Transylvania a week before Halloween?Finding a remarkable $450 round trip flight from NYC to Romania and getting off at work at 4pm Thursday...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 20, 2016 | Belgium, Blitzkrieg!!!, Fail, January 2016: Amsterdam & Belgium, Public Transportation, Walking Tours, What Dreams May Come
I have to admit, the first time I ever heard of Bruges was when I saw the trailer to Colin Farrell’s dark comedy “In Bruges” back in 2008. A little context for the post’s title… The film makes fun of Bruges as a place...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 25, 2015 | August 2015: The Baltic Circle, Belarus, Blitzkrieg!!!, Border Crossing, Crisis, Fail, Getting that VISA, How Did You Do That?, Lessons Learned, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Serendipitous!, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
Although the trip officially ended yesterday, 5 of us continued onwards for the optional extension into forbidden Belarus (or aka “Europe’s last dictatorship”…as per Western journalists) …because why not? The 5 of us left our...
