We landed in Bogota early Sunday morning, finally passed off from the last leg of our relay via Denver and Panama City before alighting. The taxi into the heart of the city was uneventful, save for the periodic cursing our driver shared with himself as he faced closed roads and barricaded streets. Sunday is Ciclovia… Read More Start Your Engines
I had been to our last stop, Shanghai, a few times when I lived in China. The city had never grabbed me, seemingly just another big Chinese metropolis, though admittedly one a bit more full of itself than most. I will confess to enjoying it a lot however with Hannah, perhaps in part due to… Read More Once More Unto the Breach
The almighty Cloud has, unfortunately, let us down. In lieu of saving and securing photos sent off into the supernatural ether, it has decided that removing them instead was the better option. As a result, this particularly entry will have to rely on the strength of my ability as a writer to describe a scene.… Read More Everybody Knows This is Nowhere
It had been five years since I’d last been to Hong Kong, nexus of east Asia. The city remains the same outwardly, spindly concrete jostling each other to crowd out the sky, hemming in narrow pavements thick with people walking and carrying out their commerce. The same calls for copy watch, copy suit, copy handbag… Read More Hong Kong & Shenzhen: The Reboot
Taipei served as the brackets to the 2017 trip to Oceania, a day-long layover both to and from Australia. In each instance, this meant an early morning arrival and late evening departure, with a full (and at times long) day in between. I had been to Taipei only once before, in 2008, for a few… Read More Parenthetical Taipei
Zak Abroad 