I came across this peaceful scene while visiting Hoi An, Vietnam. The water was calm, the light was perfect and fortunately, there weren’t many crowds to spoil the shot. Good photography is a skill but sometimes you have to point your camera at beautiful...
It Was A Typical Vietnamese Barber Shop. I Took No Mind Of The Clean Ear Part The Haircut Came Our Great! I was starting to look a bit shaggy while I was visiting Hoi An, Vietnam so I struck out in search of a place to get a shave and haircut. A few blocks away from...
Shanghai Steamed Buns Every great city has its iconic foods – Memphis has barbeque, Baltimore has crab cakes and Miami has stone crabs. Way further east Shanghai, China is known for Xiaolongbao or simply Shanghai Steamed Buns. What all these foods have in common...
Hiking on the Great Wall of China It has always been a goal of mine to hike on the Great Wall of China. I expected to be impressed but, upon actually seeing it my mind boggled. It was truly humbling to see this icon of human ingenuity and ambition stretched out before...
In the 1890’s Psychologist, William James suggested that time seems to pass faster as we move through adulthood because, “in childhood, experiences are novel and distinct” and as we grow older, “each passing year converts some of this experience into [an] automatic...
Bathing Elephants in Thailand There are just some things in life you don’t see every day. A few days ago I took a little trip around Chiang Mai, Thailand on the roads locals call the “Samoeng Loop”. It is a beautiful ride along steep winding roads up into the nearby...
Sunrise at Angkor Wat You can’t think of Cambodia without thinking of the UNESCO World Heritage Site Angkor Wat including the Angkor complex. The very name stirs up romantic images of 19th-century explorers hacking their way through thick jungle and stumbling upon an...
Water Blessing at Angkor Wat Water blessings are a traditional Cambodian Buddhist practice that dates back to ancient times. The offering of holy water symbolizes the cultivation of the virtues of calmness, clarity, and purity of our body, speech, and mind. This water...
