During my last trip to Central and Southern Africa, I missed Angola due to inconvenient flight options. I decided to catch up this time and add Malawi to enhance the trip.
Yellowknife
Yellowknife is well known as one of the best places in the world to see the aurora. Luckily, you don't have to go deep into winter to see the aurora in Yellowknife. My trip to Yellowknife during the Easter long weekend turned out to be a success.
Apr 2-4, 2026
Yellowknife
Wuhan - Chongqing
As part of the family reunion in 2025, I accompanied my mom to travel to Wuhan and Chongqing for a couple of days and had some interesting experiences.
Sep 7, 2025
Wuhan
Northern Europe - Granada - Africa - Doha
After almost eight years, I finally had the chance to take a long break and decided to travel from northern Europe to southern Africa, before heading to Asia for a family reunion.
Jul 21, 2025
Iceland (Golden Circle + Blue Lagoon)
Western Sahara - West Africa
It takes a long time to do a grand land trip across West Africa, and it's impossible for me to do so at the moment. So I decided to start the journey in stages, beginning this time with a trip from Mauritania to Guinea.
Apr 13, 2025
Dakhla
Houston - Trinidad - South America
I haven't been to South America for almost six years. It's time to visit this continent again—starting with Guyana in the north, fishing in Patagonia in the southernmost part of South America, and including a transit stop in Houston and a side trip to Trinidad.
Dec 14, 2024
Houston
South Okanagan
This year's National Day for Truth and Reconciliation happens to be on a Monday. Thankfully, South Okanagan-Similkameen Transit provides regular service on this day. I decided to take this opportunity to tour South Okanagan by public transportation.
Sep 29, 2024
Osoyoos
Central Europe
It's time to visit Central Europe, partly because of the current world situation and partly because a new ETIAS will take effect in 2025, causing additional effort and costs.
Jul 26, 2024
Berlin
Indian Ocean Islands - Northeast USA
Due to the nature of my work, I got a relatively longer vacation for this Easter. I decided to visit the four Indian Ocean island nations in Africa and stop over in a few Northeastern cities in the USA on my way back.
Mar 23, 2024
Northern Grande Comore
Hainan
Hainan is China's only tropical holiday destination. From a travel perspective, I'm not particularly interested in Hainan as I've been to many much better beach destinations. However, I decided to visit Hainan to have a family reunion due to the warm weather there in winter.
Jan 18, 2024
Haikou
Iraq - Kuwait - Saudi Arabia
I never thought of visiting Iraq until two months ago when I was at a library browsing for travel books for potential next destinations and saw the Bradt Iraq book. Since Bradt is a mainstream publisher, it means Iraq is definitely doable despite that most western countries still advise against traveling to Iraq. A nearby country, Saudi Arabia, has also opened its doors to independent travel recently, and I don't want to miss that opportunity either. The tiny country between Iraq and Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, adds a bonus to the trip.
Jan 6, 2024Baghdad
Kentucky
Two years ago, the federal government of Canada designated National Day for Truth and Reconciliation as a public holiday. This is not a holiday in the US. So I decided to visit a doctor in Louisville and take the opportunity to have a quick tour of Kentucky.
Oct 1, 2023
Mammoth Cave National Park - Daniel Boone National Forest
Australia - Timor-Leste - Indonesia
When I lived in Thailand years ago, I traveled to all Southeast Asian countries except Timor-Leste (East Timor). This has always been a regret for me. As world travel is opening up, I decided to visit Timor-Leste to complete my Southeast Asia experience. As options of getting into and out of Timor-Leste are limited, I decided to have an Indo-Pacific journey from Australia to Indonesia through Timor-Leste for my first real long-haul holiday after the pandemic.
Dec 25, 2022
Sydney
North Okanagan - Shuswap
2022 is the dominant year of the world famous Adams River salmon run. I decided to check it out and have a tour from Kelowna to Kamloops, stopping at a few interesting places en route.
Oct 8, 2022
Kelowna - Vernon
Port Alberni - Bamfield
This year's Canada Day happens to be a Friday, a rare opportunity to use the long weekend to have a car-free trip to experience the scenic Port Alberni to Bamfield boat as it typically runs on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday only.
Jul 1, 2022
Port Alberni
Georgian Bay
Georgian Bay is a beautiful area north of Toronto, ideal for a long weekend trip for Torontonians. Thanks to overnight flights from Vancouver to Toronto and evening flights from Toronto to Vancouver, it's possible to make a long weekend trip from Vancouver as well.
May 21, 2022
Tobermory
Nicoya Peninsula
About a month ago, the Canadian government announced that fully vaccinated travelers will no longer need a negative COVID test to enter Canada. I couldn't wait longer and decided to checked out the Nicoya Peninsula during the Easter holiday period. There are few countries not too far from Canada that don't require a COVID test at the moment. Costa Rica was chosen because of the high vaccination rate in the country (85%).
Apr 15, 2022
Liberia - Montezuma
Prince Rupert - Jasper
It has been two years since the COVID-19 pandemic began and traveling abroad is still very challenging for working people (though technically possible). The scenic train from Prince Rupert to Jasper seemed to be a reasonable option to celebrate this holiday season.
Dec 28, 2021
Prince Rupert
Southern Vancouver Island
It's been raining for more than one month and finally the last weekend of October became surprisingly sunny. I decided to have a road trip around Southern Vancouver Island.
Oct 30, 2021
Cowichan Valley - West Coast Highway
Oct 30, 2021
Cowichan Valley - West Coast Highway
Calgary - Drumheller
Since July, many Canadian provinces are open to domestic travel. Being fully vaccinated, I was eager to make some movements and quickly locked the Calgary Stampede as the "the thing" to check out, adding Drumheller to make a perfect weekend holiday.
Jul 10, 2021
Calgary
Jul 10, 2021
Calgary