This year in between East Asia and Europe, I made a stop in Northern America, starting from west coast United States, down to Mexico, the Dominican Republic, and then back up to the east coast United States. In the west

Visions of Merida and Valladolid : Mexico
This year I got a chance to return to one of my favorite areas in the world – Yucatan province in Mexico, and explore a bit more. Some of the things were revisits of my previous visit almost a decade

Campus visit to Swarthmore College : Pennsylvania, US
Last spring I spent a few weeks in Pennsylvania, and was invited to see Swarthmore College. It’s a small prestigious college, in the half a day I spent there I believe I covered most of it. Some old buildings, a

Visions of Santo Domingo : Dominican Republic
On the way from Mexico to the United States, I was looking for a destination I have not been to yet that would allow me to continue towards Philadelphia, and saw a flight going through Santo Domingo in the Dominican

Visions of Nashville Tennessee : United States
I’ve heard that Nashville is one the world’s country music centers, its music scene competing with places like Austin Texas, and a bustling happening place with fast growing economic status with main branches of some of the US biggest companies

Visions of Yale University : New Haven, Connecticut
Yale University has always been on my TODO list for visiting US college campuses, but the location in New Haven, Connecticut, made that a bit difficult. In 2024, while visiting Philadelphia and the east coast was invite to join my

Visions of Cusco and Machu Picchu : Peru
How to summarize Cusco? It was both one of the biggest highlights and the lowest of lows of my 2022. I was extremely lucky to land on the day of the sun festival with some crazy local festivities, and to

Visions of Córdoba : Argentina
I haven’t had the chance to do many roadtrip in my trip this year to South America. The pandemic was still a thing, and I didn’t plan the weather very well, arriving in the local winter. But when I was

Visions of Santiago : Chile
This was my first ever visit to Chile, while the world was still recovering from the pandemic. Heard so much about it, and wanted to do so much, but restrictions and weather concerns limited my visit to Santiago, the capital

Visions of Buenos Aires : Argentina
Buenos Aires Argentina was probably one of the nicest surprises I’ve had in my last trip around South America, though with a bit of a sad twist to it. On the one side, I never expected it to be this