$2 for a bottle of water?!

Back in California. I was hoping for the passport control person to give me a nice and hearty “Welcome back” or “Welcome home”. But instead I got “how old are you?” “you traveling to all these places by yourself?”...

76 hours (part 1)

  This two weeks ago, I did a solo camping trip to Zion, Bryce, and Valley of Fire. (In Utah, Utah, and Nevada respectively) This is Utah: Zion is a 7.5 hr drive from LA. The drive was made much better by audiobooks I borrowed from the Harvard Westlake Library...

23 days left!

23 days left until South America! But in the meantime, what if I told you I’m already planning for this summer? Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Nepal, Kashmir (India), Sri Lanka, Myanmar, North Korea (you bet), and Singapore? Does that sound like a step up from...

Sunny San Diego

T he wedding went off without a hitch and all was happy. I managed to get some great shots of The Prado at Balboa Park, but it’s mostly of family and happy people. Here are some of my favorites:   fishing out the wedding ring…from non other than a...

San Diego!

After a 5 hour flight from Newark, NJ to San Diego, I’m here! Beautiful sunshine, blue waters, unlimited palm trees. And just like what happened when I was in Taipei, no more than 56 seconds after updating my facebook status about being in San Diego, an old...

22 hours in San Diego

Tomorrow I’m  bound for San Diego and pulling an emergency “Taipei” situation where I’ll be there for 22 hours. Why emergency? Well, in 3 days I have my first medical school block exam back in Brooklyn and I’m not entirely prepared....