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 …
Ok, so you know how when you’re a kid and 15 minutes feels like a long time, and an hour is for-ev-er, and, seriously, what even is a year? And then some random older person says something like, “when you’re older like me, time just flies by,” and then the child version of you thinks, …
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 …
Ahhh procrastination, that beautiful double-edged sword, offering the sweet, sweet satisfaction of avoiding the dreary task of doing something productive while simultaneously doing something decidedly unproductive and significantly more entertaining. It’s truly a beautiful thing. Most of the time...until that useful thing, you know, really needs to be done. At that point, shockingly, it seems …
I think we can all agree that, if you have the opportunity to reference The Office in any way, it’s basically required that you take the opportunity (apologies to anyone who thought there might be some Battlestar Galactica content coming your way. I assure you, it is not coming). Aside from the rather-enjoyable fact that …
The other day I was talking to someone who asked why Mandi and I intentionally applied for a job that sent us over to South Korea (versus getting assigned there). It’s a pretty common question when you move to a new country, I suppose. Did we have some prior connection with South Korea? (nope). Were …
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.
So, if you didn’t know already, we moved to South Korea just over a month ago! You might say to yourself, “a month is kind of a long time to go without providing your friends and family with any updates,” and to that we say, “my bad.” If we were chatting via the wonderful Korean …
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