Before embarking on a 20-day tour of China, Alissa and I have stopped in Hong Kong for our first visit to the Special Administrative Region. Our expectations are mixed, as we have heard from travelers with...
Read More →‘I Survived Sagada’ is apparently the tagline of the small town of Sagada in the Mountain Province of the Philippines. We saw it on many t-shirts in the souvenir shops that line the main road....
Read More →When I was planning our flights in and out of the Philippines last month, I found a really good deal from Manila to Hong Kong on AirAsia. The flight left from a city about one...
Read More →There is definitely a different atmosphere when visiting WWII sites in countries like the Philippines, Singapore, Burma, and the Solomon Islands. Unlike Japan and the U.S., these countries were not only innocent bystanders, but were...
Read More →Time flies. It absolutely soars when we’re actively doing something, and it painfully crawls while we uncomfortably sit on an overnight bus. These last six months have been some of the craziest months of our...
Read More →We’re back in the Philippines! The destination of our first international trip together in 2010, and the country that helped feed our desire for travel. Our first trip included the exotic, barely developed beach towns...
Read More →Wedged between the global war of WWII and the controversial war of Vietnam sits the Forgotten War, known to most as the Korean War. It lasted a little over three years, but technically the war...
Read More →We took the express train from Busan to Seoul (which has on online booking process and is very simple to figure out from Busan station) and arrived here in Seoul with no plans. We are...
Read More →Five months ago, Alissa and I visited Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, the scene of the first land battle between the U.S. and Japanese in WWII. There we got a glimpse of what the beginning...
Read More →Every once in a while during our travels, timing seems to be perfect. We got to Hiroshima on the day before the 2013 International Symposium for Peace, an annual gathering of scholars from all over...
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