Lyon sparkles at night beneath Fourvière. For more sparkly, glowy pictures of France, click here. It may be hard to believe given that I don’t believe in free will, but I don’t believe in fate or destiny either. It simply doesn’t make sense to me that our lives are truly in our own control, yet [...] Read more »
It is pure happenstance that I’m sleeping across the way from an old man. Across the aisle, he slips his suitcase beneath the bed and pulls out a bottle of Pilsner. “Smart man,” I say, smiling and nodding at him. I’m still a little bit buzzed from Oktoberfest. “Just a few sips before bed,” he [...] Read more »
Oktoberfest glows far below the grand church steeple, its carnival secondary only to beer. For more blotto pictures of Germany, click here. “Oh man, I love Germany,” Matt tells me. The trains are flowing like beer at Oktoberfest: quickly, freely, and with a regularity that’s both beautiful for its efficiency and scary for its monumental [...] Read more »
A skyscraper towers above us on the other side of a clear glass roof near Raffles Place. For more imposing images of Singapore, click here. “Why don’t we try looping around that way,” I suggest helpfully. Matt and I have been wandering around this maze of a mall for nearly 15 minutes, trying to find [...] Read more »
Matt rests after chowing down during a stop in the port town of Champorn. For more gluttonous pictures from Thailand, click here. What a difference a few days make. I’m currently in the midst of 36 hours straight of travel from the Southern island of Koh Samui to the Northern jungle city of Chiang Mai. [...] Read more »
The modern Kwai River Bridge spans the Kwai Yai River, people crossing when trains aren’t. For more time and space spanning pictures from Thailand, click here. My father used to take regular trips to Hawaii for business when I was a child. A couple times each year, my mother and I would accompany him, lounging [...] Read more »