This January, I’ll be making it back to Hong Kong for far too short a time. If you’ll cross paths with me, let me know:
4 Jan arrive HKG around 2 p.m.
6 Jan in Macau from early morning and then flying to Kuala Lumpur, overnighting there
7 Jan to Langkawi
8 Jan back to KL and overnight [...]
I’m unexpectedly going to Paris this weekend thanks to Flyertalk and Openskies, a new BA spinoff.
Here’s the itinerary:
JFK-ORY EC002 17:30 Thu 19 Jun 08—07:25 Fri 20 Jun 08
ORY-JFK EC001 10:55 Sun 22 Jun 08 13:25—Sun 22 Jun 08
Those of you who have already talked to me since the train ride may be worried that my blog is turning into one about railroad accidents (not the Torts casebook ones, the modern ones). I’ll try to write about some other stuff too.
Baltimore was a very nice break for me. I took Greyhound [...]
After running out of disk space and fending off a hack attempt from a few days ago (oops… I’m slacking), I’ve gotten most of my pictures from my post-term trip up.
Hmm, it’s been a while. I’m back Stateside now, through a slightly torturous route.
Shanghai to Shenzhen was no trouble, and nor was speeding back to Lingnan by minibus. I picked up my stuff and met a small party in Trevor’s apartment, where I picked up my luggage and got a taxi bargained for [...]
My last day in Kyoto, I saw the mostly worthless (but free) application-required tour of the not-so-old Imperial Palace. Yawn.
More yawns followed during the night bus ride to Tokyo (nobody had a seatmate this time… excellent) and as I staggered through the early morning of Tokyo. In Tokyo, I wandered around Ueno before [...]
Here is the laundry-list style recap since I am a bad blogger:
Monday: Went to nearby Nara, an ancient capital. Walked all around Nara-koen, saw a really big wooden building (Grand Buddha hall) among other nice things. Came back, explored downtown Kyoto.
My food staples here: Yoshinoya beef bowl at least once daily, Cafe du [...]
Right, Tokyo… Shibuya, Roppongi, and I meant to see more, honest. Maybe I will squeeze in Asakusa on my way out. Shibuya was as bustling as advertised. I went to see the Roppongi Hills development and satisfy my urban planning curiosity, but wound up sidetracked as the Mori Art Museum there was [...]
I pretty much wandered through the French concession for a day and a half or so. It was nice and… leafy. I like leafy streets, and they tend to be in short supply in this half of the world.
I came down with a nasty little head cold on the morning of my departure, [...]
The title of this post is, without a trace of irony, the title of the news program playing on the bus from the airport this morning.
My flight wasn’t bad—no, wait, it was, actually. The last airport bus leaves downtown Xi’an at 1800, and my flight was at 2255, so I got to spend several [...]
