Anna and I are leaving out of LAX this Friday (actually 1am Saturday) for SE Asia. We usually take Amtrak up the coast (3 hours) to Union Station in downtown LA. From there we had to take three different metro trains to get to the shuttle that takes us to LAX. This is time consuming, …
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Desert View Tower
A bit late, oh well. A few weeks back Anna and I took my parents to see Desert View Tower in Jacumba. Having never been myself, we didn’t really know what to expect. I loved it. The tower and the springs have some amazing views of Imperial Valley and the curious boulder-pile mountains that surround …
Cambodia and Vietnam travel preparations
FedEx should be picking up our package to the San Francisco Consulate General of Vietnam in a couple hours. Unlike Cambodia, there is no mechanism to get a travel visa on arrival (airport visa). Vietnam requires sending in an application form with a recent photo, your passport, $45, and a prepaid return envelope. Our flight …
San Onofre and Tecate
(Until I have the RSS feed fixed for gallery2, I’ll post links on the front page) Photos of San Onofre beach and sunset. A few weekends back Anna and I drove up to San Onofre beach to hike under the freeway and watch the sunset. Luckily we brought rain gear, as it stormed for a …
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. …