Please ignore the arm next to his butt. Henry had a great time at the Great Wall–stayed awake and looked around our whole walk out, stayed slumped down in the Baby Bjorn for the entire walk back. For St Louis faithful, that is indeed a Cardinals hat on his head–my parents are going to submit […]
I’m used to getting stares when I travel. There was once the guy in India that came up to me while I was lying at the beach and sat down 2 feet in front of me (facing away from the ocean) for about an hour just to stare. Then there were the Indian schoolkids that […]
There are lots of sights to see in China, but for most people, the thing to do in Shanghai is shop and eat. Behind Hong Kong, it’s always been the most international city in China–lots of expats are based here (ever since the days it was a British trading post.) Because of this, a pretty […]
Are actually American. In fact, I met Mike my very first day of college at Purdue–he sold me a loft the day I moved into our dorm, and I spent a lot of time hanging out in his room down the hall over the course of the year. We shared an apartment with a couple […]
One of the “benefits” of working as a consultant is you get to fly a lot. Mostly, this isn’t all that great (you start thinking about planes as buses in the sky and know way more about airports than you’d really like), although it is a great way to amass a silly volume of frequent […]
Hello everyone! I haven’t written anything for awhile, because I didn’t really think I had anything too exciting to write about. Since we’re taking our 10 month old on a 2 week trip to China, however, I thought it was a good opportunity to make a few posts. So! Check back over the next few […]
So except for a quick stop in mostly forgetable Mamallapuram, this trip has been mostly a Matt’s “Best of Southern India” tour, wherein I show Karen all of the places that I liked when I lived in Bangalore 3 years ago. I think we’re in consensus that Kerala is the best state to visit. Favorite […]
So Karen and I were sitting in the departure lounge in Singapore, waiting for our flight to India, when I noticed that I was different from all of the other men there.? Sure, I’m a couple of shades whiter than office paper, but that’s not what I’m talking about: I was pretty much the only […]
At least that was the slogan that Karen came up for it during our 2.5 day visit to the island of Penang.? We had a good time there.? Penang actually shares a lot of similarities with Singapore–it was founded as a British trading colony and is very multicultural (about 50% Chinese, 30% Indian, 20% Malay.)? […]
So we started out this trip thinking we were going to see a lot of Indonesia and Malaysia.? The Japan part was a fun afterthought, but Southeast Asia was always the goal, and Karen and I were really looking forward to it. But, of course it’s monsoon season in Indonesia and Malaysia, and there’s unfortunately […]