by Calvin Sun | Dec 11, 2013 | Argentina, Epiphanies on the Road, Fit for Foodies, Serendipitous!, The Nightlife, Travel Warnings, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, Winter 2013: Antarctica to Pakistan
Palacio del Congreso just got served. For those of you who have been following me for a long time now, you’re familiar with how I do a balance/mixture of traveling both solo and in groups. There are perks and downsides to both. When you’re in a...
by Calvin Sun | Jun 22, 2013 | Honduras, Summer 2013: Central America, Travel Warnings
To be honest, I didn’t know this until after booking my tickets…but we’re about to fly into the “one of the world’s most violent places” a.k.a. The Murder Capital of the World: San Pedro Sula, Honduras. You might be thinking,...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 3, 2013 | Haiti, January 2012: La Hispanola, Mythbusters, Travel Warnings
First things first, the internet in Cap-Haitien barely exists. Not that I’m complaining, but it’ll be hard to shoot an update out with pictures until I get into Santo Domingo probably tomorrow. So far we took a 7 hour bus ride from Port-au-Prince to...
by Calvin Sun | Jan 1, 2013 | Community Service, Fit for Foodies, January 2012: La Hispanola, Serendipitous!, Travel Warnings, Walking Tours, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Here I am! And on your Independence Day (it’s January 1st) too! Outside the airport We’re currently staying at the Trinity Lodge in Delmas, a quieter suburb of Port-au-Prince, Haiti’s capital. I...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 29, 2012 | December 2012: Eastern Europe, Doctor in the House, How Did You Do That?, Mythbusters, Travel Warnings, Ukraine, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
Our first full group photo; some of us didn’t know whether to smile or keep a straight face… The Pripyat Ferris Wheel just got served Close your eyes. Close your eyes and imagine if you were forced to leave everything you knew behind, a split second...
by Calvin Sun | Dec 27, 2012 | December 2012: Eastern Europe, Travel Warnings, Ukraine, Way Way Off the Beaten Path, What Dreams May Come
Mutually Assured Destruction just got served. This is what the end of the world once looked like. About a 4 hour bus ride south from Kiev is a former Soviet ICBM nuclear missile silo, housing enough weaponry to destroy the entire world. We are the fortunate few...
by Calvin Sun | Apr 23, 2012 | April 2012: Iran, Iran, Mythbusters, Post-travel Reflections, Rules Are Meant To Be Broken, Travel Warnings, Way Way Off the Beaten Path
I had said in a previous entry how “normal” everything seemed when I was in Iran last week, but about a week since I’ve returned I’ve noted some exceptions. Of course, some of these are via word of mouth through our interpreter, but this...
by Calvin Sun | Apr 4, 2012 | Pre-travel Preparations, Travel Warnings
Thank you U.S. State Department for issuing this travel warning for me. Keeps everything into perspective, doesn’t it? IRAN The Department of State warns U.S. citizens to carefully consider the risks of travel to Iran. Dual national Iranian-American...
by Calvin Sun | Nov 18, 2011 | Mythbusters, Post-travel Reflections, Pre-travel Preparations, Publicity, Travel Warnings
Travel and Leisure came out with a list of 15 of the world’s “most dangerous countries.” Out of that list, we’ve already recently been to 3 of them, dallied on the border of 2 others and are planning to go to 2-3 more within the year. In our...
by Calvin Sun | Aug 18, 2011 | Crisis, Mythbusters, North Korea, Summer 2011: From the Middle East to North Korea, Travel Warnings
The DMZ. Former president Bill Clinton had named it the “scariest place on Earth.” It is the most heavily militarized border in the world, with over a million soldiers ready to go to war at a moment’s notice if either side dared to cross the 38th...
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