Returning to our regularly scheduled programming… Seoul.  Chris has already written quite extensively about this trip, so I figure I can piggy-back on his (more contemporaneous) writings and just add my own thoughts. It was my first trip back in almost 30 years.  My memories of Seoul are very fuzzy, as I was 7 years old.  Mostly what I remembered were lots… Continue reading Asia, Part 3

Maybe I won’t finish up on Asia after all?  Who knows.  I’m just not feeling the need to write on that trip right now. Instead, it occurred to me that it would be nice to have, for future reference, my thoughts on bucket list travel.  And since this blog is for me (since I’m pretty… Continue reading Another digression: bucket lists

I’ll get back to posting about Korea and Hong Kong… probably.  Chris has been great about blogging based on notes that he wrote during the trip, so his account is more like a journal of the trip.  He’s done blogging at that trip (as well as blogging about the trip after that — we spend… Continue reading Digression: On travel, in general

I normally like to travel with an eye towards learning what it’s like to live like a local. We often stay in apartments, shop for groceries, walk around to get a sense of the neighborhood, and try to gain perspective on a different culture. For our first trip to Asia, however, that’s completely getting thrown… Continue reading Macau; or, how not to travel