Sorry, I meant to publish this in October, but kept procrastinating. Anyways, I plan to go to Thailand again next week, but wanted to post pictures from my first trip. The first week of October is Golden Week, celebrating the official formation of the People’s Republic of China. Instead of staying around in Changchun […]
Read More →Part two of my time in Borneo brought Erika and me to Mulu National Park, deep in the ancient rain forest of Borneo. Here we spent a few days exploring the rain forest, getting to see some really incredible insects and plants. We also explored the vast cave system that Mulu is so well known […]
Read More →Chinese New Year or the Spring Festival, gave me a week off to do some more traveling. I ended up deciding on Kota Kinabalu (KK) in Borneo Malaysia. This is a large tropical island in the South China Sea that has the oldest rain forest in the world. A friend of mine from Seattle, Erika […]
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Mid-Autumn festival is a bit like Thanksgiving in the US, family gets together and celebrates the harvest and family unions. For me, that meant 4 days away from work. I ended up hoping on a 4 hour high speed train down to Shanhaiguan, a small city on the sea East of Beijing. This is where […]
Read More →Today marks 4 weeks living in Changchun. So far I can say it has been exciting, interesting, and fun. Coming here in the summer definitely is making adjusting and getting used to the city much easier than in the Winter. It pretty much stays below 15F from December to march, with lows down to -20; […]
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First off, Thank you Enrique Serra for letting me use this blog for my expat adventures in China, SE Asia and beyond. I’ve been in Changchun, China for a week now. The first few days were spent finding an apartment, acclimating to a new world, and organizing paperwork. I will put together a separate post […]
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April 7 Today we fly out to Chiang Mai, but not until the afternoon so we have some time to kill. I thought the wet market was worth showing to my sister so we made the Khlong Toey (Wet) Market our destination for the morning pre flight escapade. I already wrote about this market last […]
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April 6 Bangkok Final Day Note: Some of the pictures appear upside down on the previews. They appear upright on the admin page and even when you click on them, but for some reason upside down during the preview. Not sure what is going on, sorry about that. I finally brought out the better camera […]
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April 5 Note: The MBK event actually happened this day. For some reason I had the story in the yesterday’s post. Today I slept in until 5am at least. Its gonna take a while to shake off this jet lag. My hosts were told of a good restaurant for brunch nearby, called The Emporium if […]
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April 4 Bangkok Two Comments: 1. I am trying a new setup/plug-in for the images. Hopefully this makes it easier to view the images (you can click on an image and scroll through, click on the info icon for a brief description of each image). If you guys can, let me know if you […]
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