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Liverpool was the first city in my tour of northern England. I knew very little about the city, aside from the Beatles, ofcourse, and the famous football/soccer team, and so realized that there’s a lot going on and many things

In my last few months in Hong Kong as my home base I was trying to say good bye to the region and was looking for a new destination in a familiar setting, a quick getaway for a weekend+ that

I’ve always wanted to explore more of the middle east, but it is only 2-3 years ago that I was really able to overcome a technicality that allowed me to visit. Since then, I was able to get a bit

When touring around London and before heading up to northern England, I asked a friend what to see beyond the obvious big cities of Liverpool, Manchester, and Leeds, and he replied very confidently that I should make a stop in

On 2016 I had my first visit to Quintana Roo with a brief visit to the Mayan Pyramids Ruins at Tulum Archeological Site. I’ve been meaning to go back and explore more of the region again for many years, but

It’s been 20 years since I last visited Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City. In 2005 I was a backpacker and lingered for far too long trying to figure out this very messy place in the world. My recent visit

Living in Hong Kong, over the years I’ve visited Macau many times, typically with a few years in between (see my old itinerary from over a decade ago). Almost every time I visit I’m surprised by the contrasts of how

In 2024 I flew in to visit University of Reading, with a long flight from Hong Kong for a short weekend, exploring a bit of the small town. This was winter time, so it was cold and gloomy, and I

While wandering around the London area in England, and before making it to northern parts of the United Kingdom, I decided to do a bit of a detour and hop over to southern France to warm up a bit and

Monaco was always a bit tricky for me to get to, been waiting for the right opportunity to visit this small European country for a very long time, and finally got the chance to come by when visiting the nearby

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

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

Funky Tokyo. Been to this city many times and it never ceases to amaze me with new things to see and explore. In February 2024, I spent a couple of weeks in the city, touring around and finding new areas

In my most recent visit to the London area to visit the Royal Holloway University of London campus, I visited a friend in the area, and we took a day out to explore Windsor. We walked around a lot, saw

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

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

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

Long ago, in 2005, I spent a few months in Vietnam roaming around the country. At some point, as I was planning a trip from Ho Chi Minh, to Dalat, and then to Nha Trang, I had a serious accident

It’s a bit embarrassing that I’ve seen so much of the world but have never been to Africa before 2022. Though the world was still coming out of a pandemic, I was long overdue to visit, and so my first

I’ve heard so much about Bali, and have always wanted to go, but there was technical reasons that prevented me from going. Three years ago, those technical challenges just suddenly disappeared, so I had to wait a bit for the