Travel Archive

As I am on a layover in San Francisco Airport bridging between holiday vacation with my family in Arizona, USA and returning to where I reside and work in Seoul, Korea, I couldn’t help but to tend to fleeting thoughts that happen to surface in moments of transition. The

I am writing this entry from the comfort of Seoul, Korea — freshly returned from Tokyo, Japan a few short weeks ago — “Back 2 the Basics” so to speak. This wonderful country has a way of attracting me to come back again and again, dating back from 2008

This will be a relatively short post as I will be leaving for Kyoto in an hour. Simply put: the past 48 hours have been the most thrilling and most full of life that I have experienced in my 8 months of being in Japan. I feel as if

Here I am sitting in my weekly apartment hotel for the last evening after having spent the larger part of 2 weeks here. If these weeks have been any indication of the upcoming months, then it is and will be undoubtedly one of, if not the most dynamic, challenging,

Just freshly back from a weeklong voyage through Singapore and Malaysia, which was a very nice and relaxing break. I spent time with great friends who I hadn’t seen in a long while. Anyhow, now I will say that I suddenly find myself in the midst of a drastic

Here I am on the eve of taking off to Los Angeles in an effort to request for a working holiday visa. I will be the first applicant for such an endeavor in this particular Korean Consulate General, which pretty much sums up the manner in which I undertake

J’adore Hanoi, I am just now realising how much my life in Hanoi suits me. I feel that I have really accomplished a goal in coming here to intern at the European Commission’s Delegation to Vietnam. It’s almost as if everyday I’m living a dream, not to sound too

I’m writing this entry after being in Hanoi, Vietnam for a few hours (I landed not even 3 hours ago). Everything is overwhelming, the city streets jammed with traffic (the scooters especially) in a chaotic symphony of orderliness that somehow functions. I am now, at this instant, to look

I have to first start this entry by saying that I have eaten so much tonight that I can hardly move, which is a pretty uncomfortable feeling. It’s 4:20AM on January 1st, 2009; ‘ca y est’ – it’s a new year, preceded by usually excessive drinking, and the characteristic

I’m going through the photos of my Asia trip, which has brought me to think about where I have been this year. I can definitely say that it has been the craziest and best year of my life so far, both in terms of travel opportunities and discovering of