Intro to Singapore After using every last day of our 30-day Indonesia visa, we moved on to Singapore. To make the most of SE Asia’s most modern and expensive city…

Bangkok was a surprise. Maybe it has do do with the neighborhood we stayed in, or the activities we chose, but we didn’t find the chaos or danger we’d heard…

Language is an occasional barrier to getting the best eats in China, but we refuse to be deterred. We’ve developed some good strategies, and have been greatly enjoying the results….

Twenty-four years after visiting Hong Kong with my family, I wondered how things may have changed. I was a teenager then, and had been living in Japan as an exchange…

Shanghai: A Great Place to Refuel After a month or so of wandering China, Shanghai was a wonderful place to rest up. It’s very much a modern city, with all…

The city walls still stand around the heart of this city that was once the end of the Silk Road. It makes navigation that much easier: if you go too…

Seven hours and three sets of meal vouchers after our China Southern flight should have taken off from Seoul, it finally did. Maybe we should have paid more attention to…

  As we ventured away from the metropolis of Beijing we were very limited on the choice of cities to visit. The reason for this was our neglect in purchasing…

Our lodging, The House Hostel offers free bikes to guests, so an afternoon of cycling was a must.  The port serves as the terminal for Russian ferries (the only one…

Eating has been an ongoing challenge for us in Korea, not because of any lack of tasty options, but because of our inability at times to access them. The biggest…