BRIGHT LIGHTS BIG SEOUL
In Seoul, everything happens at night. The food stalls set up, the markets stay open and all the kids come out to drink and dance.
SEOUL JUXTAPOSITION
Seoul, as we found out, is a world class city. A little bit New York a little bit Paris. Sometimes, you visit a capital and it doesn’t represent the country. But everything we read and everyone we talked to wanted us to realize Seoul was the place to be. It’s huge and grey. But also […]Read Post ›
COUPLE DRESSING IN SEOUL
Couple dressing is a “thing” in Seoul, as well as lots of boyfriends carrying lots of their lad handbags. Even the tiniest handbag. No seriously TINY bags. The couples pictured aren’t even close to the best ones we saw, but I wasn’t quick enough to catch them. A friend who used to live in Seoul […]Read Post ›
MORE SEOUL
We had only spent about 8 hours in Korea before deciding to spend a month there. We had a long layover on our way home from South East Asia nine years ago. I have a special connection because I was adopted from Korea thirty one years ago. I could feel myself getting anxious just thinking […]Read Post ›
SEOUL
Our first international stop on our world tour was Seoul, South Korea. Koko and I pride ourselves on being pretty seasoned travelers. But my goal on this particular trip was to completely immerse myself. Throw myself in so willingly and come out a champion, top-notch, A+++, All Star traveler. This includes looking stupid and silly […]Read Post ›
SEPTEMBER 3, 2016
After we jammed all of our shit into a storage space in SF we drove north to Washington. We stopped for lunch in Williams California. The restaurant was appropriately named Williams Chinese Restaurant. Our server was a young woman from China. I wondered how she ended up in a tiny town where most people stop […]Read Post ›
HAWAII
Our sweet little Airbnb Hawaii Volcanoes National Park – while viewing the Caldera crater a huge chunk of wall collapsed and was engulfed in bright orange lava. It was probably the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. Hawaii Volcanoes National Park South Point L&L Shrine near the Hawaii Tropical Botanical Garden Hawaiian style bento from […]Read Post ›
ISLAND LANDSCAPE
The Big Island is the youngest Hawaiian island by 5 million years. Instead of sandy beaches (although it has some of those too) there are lava fields. The black sand beach looks surprisingly like what I would just call sand on the Washington coast. Just a little more sparkly. The cooled lava rock varies in […]Read Post ›
WAY FAR OUT 