Just as one sun set on our joyriding adventures in Santorini, another one rose to a new day in Athens. Athens, brimming with history as one of the oldest cities in the world, offered a striking contrast to our experience in Santorini. Gone were the whitewashed blue domed buildings and ritzy shops to be replaced […]Read Post ›
Just as one does not explore Santorini without a set of four wheels, neither does one depart from such paradise without witnessing their famous sunset. Santorini conjures up images of cliff perched towns, tiered along the rugged volcanic landscape that cascade down to the cerulean Agean Sea. After a day of touring black sand beaches, […]Read Post ›
Very seldom do Simon and I indulge in beach bumming. Neither of us like to tan for fun and we aren’t very good swimmers. The thought of laying out on the sand doing absolutely nothing seems mind numbingly boring and uneventful. Despite all these reasons, we found ourselves headed to Phuket, Thailand’s beachy party destination […]Read Post ›
After spending the last two days cooking up our own Thai dishes and training elephants, Simon and I looked forward to enjoying a day of relaxation with nothing on the agenda except to roam around and get lost. Chiang Mai, the northern capital city of Thailand, is everything that Bangkok is not. Whereas the southern […]Read Post ›
I waded after Simon into the waist deep muddy pond, careful not to loose my balance or else let my head slip underwater. A large watermelon sized ball of densely packed fiber suddenly floats to the surface. Yep, I willingly put myself in a pool of elephant dung. How did it come to this? Simon […]Read Post ›
We flew in on a humid evening into Bangkok, a city that you either hate or you love. Internationally famous, this is the metropolis that never sleeps, full of crazy energy, spicy food, and whether you’re thirsty for a pub crawl, curious about the lady boys’ infamous night show cabarets, or want to indulge in […]Read Post ›
It is no wonder they call Taiwan the heart of Asia, for as soon as I set foot on the North Coast Scenic Area of the beautiful Formosa, I was in love. I’ve always heard that Taiwan is extremely beautiful, charming any visitor with its wide scope of natural landscapes, ranging from warm sandy beaches, […]Read Post ›
Simon and I took our first spontaneous detour from our original travel itinerary to the city of Luoyang, home to the famous Longmen Caves. The sight of over a thousand caves on Mount Longmen is something otherworldly. You can’t help but feel transported back in time to one of China’s earliest dynasties, when the carvings […]Read Post ›
Carcasses hanging in butcher shops, carts overflowing with produce, and small food stalls making fresh batches of deliciousness crowd the sidewalks. Meanwhile, a constant traffic jam of pedestrians, honking cars, beeping motorbikes, and zippy mopeds, flood the narrow streets where road rules don’t exist and everyone has the right of way. This organized chaos is […]Read Post ›
When you can’t move mountains, go climb one. I don’t know why but I have a thing for mountains in China – I have been atop two before and am always hungry for more. I think it’s the fact that they are ancient, and sagacious for having lived through so much history. Great Chinese poets, painters, […]Read Post ›
