by Calvin Sun | Dec 16, 2010 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Hong Kong, Pre-travel Preparations, What to Pack
A sunset in Brooklyn… 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 …vs. a sunset in Hong Kong I’ll be in the air for...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 14, 2010 | Blitzkrieg!!!, Hong Kong, Our Next Adventure
So this weekend – don’t ask me why – I’ll be traveling to Hong Kong for 24 hours, before heading back to NYC. Yes, just like my whirlwind trips to Taiwan and San Diego, it’ll be another blitzkrieg mission to see as much as I can in...
by Calvin Sun | Nov 27, 2010 | Doctor in the House, Mexico, Our Next Adventure, Pre-travel Preparations
Monsoon Diaries will be heading to Mexico this winter. Tijuana, Mexico My fellow medical students and I will be undertaking an international medical development project with an organization called One Small House. For the last 10 years, One Small...
by Calvin Sun | Oct 11, 2010 | Post-travel Reflections
Just calculated the number of miles I traveled this summer: 39,030.04 miles or 62,812.76 kilometers That’s 14,120.49 miles more than — or approximately 1.6x — the circumference of the Earth.- At time of posting in NYC, it was 62.6 °F - Humidity:...
by Calvin Sun | Oct 10, 2010 | Our Next Adventure, Pre-travel Preparations
I’m deciding on the trip to happen next year, an 8-10 week hiatus of what possibly could be my last real summer vacation for many many years. The options in order of perceived difficulty: 1) Europasia on a Rail: Trans-Siberian Railway Network from Russia –...
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