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. […]
If you live on the opposite end of the continent like I do, a trip to Ultra Miami is going to hurt the bank account. Ultra Miami is held on the last weekend of March, which coincides with spring break for a lot of the country. Therefore, it is a VERY expensive weekend to travel […]
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, […]
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, […]
The Amphawa Floating Market is a series of shops, bridges, and walkways along the Amphawa Canal and is the second largest floating market in Bankok, located some 50 km outside of the city. As opposed to the touristy Damnoen Saduak, Amphawa draws mostly local visitors. I boarded an organized minivan tour on Khaosan Street that […]
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: […]
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, […]
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 […]
I had barely gotten back from a month-long whirlwind tour of China when I found myself on a flight to Los Angeles. These would be my first memories of the city I was born in as an adult. Sure, my family did the customary trip to Disneyland when I was a kid but it’s simply […]
Living with Needle Butt is both and blessing and a curse. It’s mid-morning, late-March and the early spring sun is wavering behind scattered clouds, shifting the light in my living room between shade and sunlight. My hands are shaking. I just typed in my credit card details and, after hovering my mouse arrow over the large bright blue […]
For some strange reason that I have yet to figure out, Asian people are obsessed with making poop cute. You’ve seen it: the popular poop emoji with the smiley face, poop plushies, poop keychains, poop stickers, poop logos, poop anything that goes in Asia (and anything goes in Asia). In Taiwan, they take this to […]