Hop Over to Hanoi

Hanoi is little over an hour and a half flight from Hong-Kong: making me ponder why I don’t make the journey every weekend. As I walk from the plane to Vietnamese immigration, I notice that this whole place smells like my favorite pho place back in Denver. Either they use the same floor cleaner, orContinue reading “Hop Over to Hanoi”

The Fire Dragon

After my journey around Macau, I finally reach home at around 3:30 in the morning. That gave me just a few hours of sleep, having to wake up at 9 am to rush down south to catch my pottery class on Hong Kong Island. I didn’t even wake my roommate up when coming or going,Continue reading “The Fire Dragon”

Restless in Hong-Kong

I stand, waiting in line at the Hong-Kong airport for my Metro card. A Chinese man steps up behind me, and his bowels decide I need a proper initiation with a long-winded, open-armed flatulent vibration as if to say “Welcome to Hong-Kong”. I’ve just landed after an 8 day trip around Taiwan (read more here),Continue reading “Restless in Hong-Kong”

Tying it Together in Taichung

Mist falls as I walk around a neon glow reflecting off the puddle surfaces in the street. A resounding feeling of calmness drifts over me as I can’t help but smile over the beauty of it all, the beauty of Taiwan. Day 6 I wake up at around 5 am, to the neighbors of myContinue reading “Tying it Together in Taichung”

Latvian Country

The chickens I had fed scraps to the night before had been working all hours to make breakfast for us. Fresh eggs are so extraordinarily underrated. How often do you get to hold a warm egg? These days there’s nothing that separates an egg in a supermarket from a packet of mushrooms, really. They bothContinue reading “Latvian Country”