After a few hours hiking around Mission Trails Park, Anna and I were famished. Since we were already in La Mesa, we decided to check out a recommendation from a coworker. We arrived at Fix Me A Plate Cafe at 5:15pm. They were supposed to open at 5pm. The cook finally rolled around at 5:30 …
Yearly Archives: 2006
New Qinghai-Tibet railway
Following the meme of my previous post, we can probably add another spot to the ‘dramatically changed by tourism’ list. New Qinghai-Tibet railway: “Traveling overland through snow-capped mountains and high-land meadows to visit mysterious Tibetan Buddhist shrines on the world’s highest plateau will soon no longer require the grit and resolve of an adventurous backpacker. …
Angkor & Vietnam
It looks like Anna and I will be visiting Siem Reap (Angkor, Cambodia) and Vietnam in early May. Initially we were going to do a tour to Angkor, then just travel on our own through Vietnam. However the cost of the tour + flights to Saigon, Hanoi, and back to Siem Reap were about $400 …
New site
You are reading this on my new host. It gives me a lot more room to play around with – I was limited to 500mb and 5gb/month on my old host. Gallery 2 is working at the moment, but stuff like the RSS feed is busted, and the theme is just a quick hack. Once …
Austin
(All photos for this entry are posted here) Anna was in Austin last week for business, I tagged along for the weekend to check out the city. I have heard a lot about Austin, but this was my first time visiting the city. We stayed at the fabulous Austin Motel on South Congress. Cheap, stylish …