Category Things I love

Penang: George Town food tour

Kuala Lumpur: Michelin star at DC Restaurant

Kuala Lumpur: Islamic Arts Museum

Melaka: Obsessed with the vibe at Baboon House cafe

Melaka: Great tile everywhere

Eclipse!

This weekend I started a new chapter of my travel career with a trip specially planned to watch an eclipse—specifically the annular eclipse. I flew to Salt Lake City yesterday, met up with Amanda who had flown in from Denver, and then drove the hours south to the small town of Richfield, UT, where we […]

The last of Banff! Vistas and rivers and icefields… in the rain

Right on cue with the weather forecast, the clouds rolled in overnight and today was dark and cloudy and more wet than not. So it was a good thing we’d done our big hiking day yesterday. On deck for today: the Icefields Parkway that runs through Banff National Park and adjacent Jasper National Park. Along […]

More Banff! Lakes and Larches

Today was an exercise in travel adventures that consisted of (1) reading the weather forecast and deciding that we needed to throw out our plans for today and instead do what we’d planned for tomorrow, (2) getting up way before the crack of dawn to drive from Canmore up to Lake Louise where we embarked […]

Banff!

What could be better than an extra-long weekend in one of the most spectacular national parks in North America? Doing it with a good friend, and in early autumn when the colors are hitting their golden peak. Two Jack Lake Lake Minnewanka Cascade Pond Grotto and Pool Gondola & Top of Mount Sulphur Bow Falls […]

K-pop in Chicago!

This weekend was a fun excursion into the world of K-pop! After a week of work in DC, I stopped off in Chicago and met up with Amanda and Rachel to see NCT Dream in concert. My last brush with K-pop was a bunch of years ago on a trip to Seoul. But this time […]

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