by Andy | Jun 13, 2014 | Asia, Travel, Trip Reports, Vietnam
I arrived late at night to Hanoi aboard a Dragonair A330. It was a short flight, and like I mentioned in my last post I was so exhausted that I fell asleep when I first sat in my seat and had to be lightly shaken awake by the flight attendant after we had...
by Andy | Jun 12, 2014 | Asia, Hong Kong, Travel, Trip Reports
Hong Kong is an energetic melting pot of the western world and the Far East. There’s no city quite like it. I don’t think it’d be out of bounds to call it a gateway to modern Asia in fact. A British colony until 1999, it is now...
by Andy | May 21, 2014 | Travel, Trip Reports
Well this all escalated quickly. I won’t bore you with the details yet (you’ll have to wait until the trip report for that) but I’m heading out Sunday for what was originally going to be a couple of days in Europe. At the last minute I decided to...
by Andy | Apr 15, 2014 | Asia, China, Travel, Trip Reports
No visit to Beijing is complete without spending at least 3-4 days there. I completely whiffed on that one, spending a total of about 40 hours in Beijing. But another thing everyone says you have to visit is the Forbidden City. Located in the middle...
by Andy | Apr 10, 2014 | Asia, China, Travel, Trip Reports
My dear faithful readers (hi Mom!), I apologize for my delay. My duties as a frequent flyer got in the way of my trip report, for which I apologize somewhat half-heartedly, as I did a really enjoyable mileage jog to Easter Island over the weekend. If...