Posts filed under “Travel 旅游”

izu 伊豆

I am chasing a mountain.  A legend.  A symbol…  The Fuji hovers like a myth behind a veil of mist and cloud.  Alive while dormant, assertive and yet faint, revealing itself then dissipating into the background as the sun runs its course.    Never have I seen a landscape as transformative as this, and never has [...]

The Way Rome Intended… 羅馬之道

I opened my eyes and stared into a rustic, antique wooden-ceiling.  It’s an unusually early hour for me to wake up to but both the street-washing vehicle just outside the window and my jetlag demanded it.  This was a morning as routine as any.  We woke up, cleaned ourselves and got dressed.  But instead of [...]

Malaysia Feeding Frenzy 馬來西亞吃到瘋

I’m not gonna bullshit. This ISN’T about the beaches.  This ISN’T about the rain forests or the baby orangutans they wouldn’t let me hold.  This ISN’T about those corn-looking twin towers either, or getting up from the bottom and looking down from the top – big whoops.  Let’s also spare the traveler’s enlightenment crap cuz [...]

Paris, Where Have You Been All My Life?

Just the fact that they didn’t compromise the integrity of the city for real estate, makes me kind of believe in (sorry…) socialism.  Apparently all buildings except for one (ewww… Trump, is that you?) in central Paris cannot exceed 6 stories tall.  So what?  It unveils the vastest, most beautiful sky I have ever seen [...]