So what did 2020 look like? 2020, what can I say? This has been a disaster year, on so many levels. It’s been so bad that doing a summary of travel almost seems pointless, bordering inappropriate. But even in
Nepal has been on my travel TODO list since I first arrived in Asia, and somehow in the ~15 I’ve been in the area I failed to find the opportunity to visit. Until finally I decided to do an unexpected
This summer I needed a retreat following a European work visit, so I took a quick flight to Rijeka in Croatia so get closer to the coastline and get some warm weather. After a quick visit to Zagreb, I took
What did 2014 look like? 2014 marked an important change in my life. After 5 years as a PhD student living in Hong Kong I finally defended my dissertation and graduated the PhD to leave Asia and begin a postdoc
What better way to sum up 2013 than photos? While I still carry around a heavy DSLR, 2013 was definitely the year of the mobile, as I shift more of the light lifting photography to my mobile. In 2012 I
Chicago is perhaps one of the nicest urban surprises I’ve had in recent years. Coming in for a conference visit I honestly wasn’t sure what to expect but Chicago has far exceeded any expectations I had. May provided me with
So what did 2012 look like? to me this was a year focused around academia. After settling down into the PhD program and generally figuring out what my research directions are, my travels were mostly around the places where my
New York City is everything I remembered it to be and much more. Last time I was in NYC as a tourist, it was 2001 just after 9/11 to visit a friend studying in Julliard, and it was a bit
I finally made it to Beijing. It took over three years of living in Hong Kong but it finally happened, and I have my father to thank for that. Beijing was our last stop in a trip that started in
Xiamen was a very pleasant surprise. It’s not too crowded, quite tourist friendly, very well developed, and has a special charm which combines the scenic beauty of a coastal city with lots of colonial and regional history. To summarize