Tag: travel
All the articles with the tag "travel".
Amtrak to LAX
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 differ…
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 spr…
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). Viet…
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 f…
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 an…
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 th…
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 tim…
NK
The quality at BBC dropped a notch on this story of an American tourist in North Korea : "To be honest, I was surprised with how friendly and warm-hearted they [North Korea assigned tour guides] were.…
Sequoias
(All photos for this entry are posted here ) Sept 5, 2005 - From Reno we hit Sacramento, then Anna and I booked it down the 99 to get to Kings Highway and Sequoia National Park. We stopped along the w…
Burning Man 2005
(All photos and movies for this entry are posted here ) As I'm sure you have gathered, Anna and I are back in town. But are still somewhat recovering from our trip up to Burning Man, the Bristlecone F…