Piping-hot, fried, soup dumplings were the afternoon reward for a meandering, coffee-fueled morning spent walking all over Shanghai to conclude our week spent in China. As is our tradition, we had spent the previous 30 minutes or so searching around, indecisively evaluating various food options in the area, steadily increasing our hunger levels, which somehow …
While Mandi and I definitely enjoyed living our big-city lifestyle in Seoul (I don’t exactly know what that means, but I assume that’s how cool, big-city people talk, right?), we were pretty excited to leave the crowds of Beijing and head to the Huangshan mountains for the second stop of our week-long trip in China. …
The little dot on the AirBnB map said we were going in the right direction, so that was good... Waiting for our taxi After a flight delay leaving Seoul in September, we got through customs in Beijing at 1am, waited in line for a taxi, and showed the address to the driver, who began navigating …
We had finally gotten our bags from the carousel at Incheon airport outside of Seoul, after what seemed like an eternity of watching bag after bag take their personal victory lap around the metal merry-go-round, and were trying to find our way to the exit when we came across what was assuredly the fully-realized physical …
A few years ago, May 2nd, 2014 to be exact, Mandi and I were sitting nervously in the corner of Sun Ray Cafe, a popular post-mountain-bike-ride spot in the charming Hyde Park neighborhood of Boise. On this particular day, their garage doors were thrown open, inviting the warm spring air to filter into the building …
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On many evenings throughout the winter months, you’ll find me sitting on a couch, tense, perhaps with my hands on my face, as I nervously await the outcome of a Gonzaga basketball game that shouldn’t have been close but has somehow turned into a nailbiter (our game against University of Washington this past season comes …
Google Flights is a wonderful, time-sucking, travel-inducing tool, providing the sweet, sweet satisfaction of plugging in a random date and seeing where in the world you could fly to for the lowest amount of money. Since we’ve been in Seoul, many hours (days?) have been spent daydreaming about new travel destinations while playing with the various …
You know what I didn’t really think about when we moved to South Korea? How to get a haircut. It wasn’t really on the short list of things to think about as we were navigating the logistics to move here, but it quickly became important a few weeks into our time here when I started to resemble the Geico caveman a couple of weeks in.
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