Phong Nha fun fact: After Halong Bay, Phong Nha is the most visited tourist site among Vietnamese tourists ( Read more... )

Vietnam War Fun -- er, interesting -- Fact: Agent Orange is only one of a whole rainbow of defoliants used in Vietnam ( Read more... )

Hoi An Fun Fact: Every year, at least once, Hoi An floods up to at least a meter or so. Every house in the area has a second floor that they live in for about 4 days a year. I wonder if they'll ever discover the stilt ( Read more... )

Mekong Delta fun fact: The Mekong produces more rice that Japan and Korea combined, despite being less than a 10th the size of Japan ( Read more... )

Hey all,

This blog, like all of Livejournal, has become a bit of a sad relic, a testament to the times when people actually wrote full paragraphs that they wished their friends to read. But it has some good travel memories, and so I will continue to blog here.

Jessica and I are fortunate enough to have a big chunk of time off before we start our ( Read more... )

I'm all packed up and ready to move to Berkeley. And not just in the sense that I have everything ready to go to Berkeley -- I've also been spending a fair amount of time packing up all my various earthly possessions. All my belongings used to be distributed between some place in Vancouver, my dad's place, and my mom's place, but now it's all in ( Read more... )

I'm back. I've been back since last Tuesday, but haven't bothered updating. I'm pretty happy to be home; wish I had just travelled Europe instead of wasting time living there; and am looking forward to being at Berkeley while being simultaneously a little worried about the 5-year "we even own you in the summers" commitment ( Read more... )

For my last minitrip in Italy, I went to Mordor today. Actually, I went to a place called Molveno, but it was at the foot of the mountain ranges that I called Mordor back in this entry. It was stunning, and given my robotically high bar for excitement, I like to think that's saying something. Someone told me it's like a "mini Lake Louise", and I ( Read more... )

This stuff really sneaks up on you ( Read more... )

( Sorry if my entries are seeming overly negative of late . . . )