Why I Am Ready To Join The Vancouver Exodus

Or, Why I Am On The Brink of Becoming An Expat It was one of those Sundays in early January when you wake up to bright, stark sunlight streaming through your blinds. My fellow Vancouverites might know the one. It’s been grey and dreary for months. You open your curtains to a brave new world and see, […]

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Timeline of My 2015 Travels

We’ve been searching for so long To find the place where we could belong We always dreamed of better things to come And turned our faces towards the sun We follow the light that we see in the dark And keep on going till it catches spark I believe there’s a change to come We’ll […]

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The Long-Haul Flight Survival Kit

Once, within the span of 1.5 years, I crossed the Pacific Ocean no less than 10 times. On the first of those journeys, I was so exhausted and sleep-deprived that I walked full speed into a glass door. Since then, I’ve learned a thing or two about how to lessen the pain of long-haul flights. […]

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EDC Las Vegas Survival Guide

Partying for 3 days with 100,000 people under the electric sky is not for the faint-hearted. There are millions of bright lights and loud sounds to potentially cause you a world of confusion. People dressed in costumes stumble about and inevitably push against one another in front of heavily crowded stages. To help you out, […]

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The Market Built on an Active Railroad in Bangkok

The Maeklong Railway Market is a rather unique attraction in that multiple trains pass through the center of the busy market every day. What is probably the most surprising part about the market is that the shops and vendors aren’t set up around it rather than right on the railway tracks. When there is no train passing through, […]

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EDC Week 2012

Getting Ready Soon after our festival tickets, flights, and hotels were booked, the girls of the group going to EDC went shopping for daisies, rhinestones, and beads to make costumes and kandi. We had been excitedly looking up outfit references and planning our own. Dressing for a rave is sort of like dressing for Halloween: […]

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Kopi Luwak Coffee AKA Cat Poop Coffee

I had heard stories before that the supposed best coffee in the world is made out of coffee beans eaten and then pooped out by a weasel/cat-like creature. I immediately wrinkled and nose and said there was no way I was drinking anything derived from poop no matter how good it’s claimed to taste. However, […]

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The National Palace Museum

The National Palace Museum is a museum of antiques from the Forbidden City nestled in the lush forests of Shilin District in Taipei. The museum was first established in 1925 at the Forbidden City after the expulsion of the last emperor of China and consists of valuable items from the Chinese imperial family. A large portion […]

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