There is an old Chinese idiom, “Resting is for the sake of the longer journey ahead.” Travel, in a way, is close to resting. My recent Greece trip involved lots of resting, not in a sense of sleeping, but in a sense of doing things I’ve longed for but haven’t had a chance to do […]
Even outside of the airplane window, a gloomy sky awaiting, I told myself, “Everything is going to be alright.” That is how elated I was: a week in Spain made me feel like a new person. I still remember the moment when I arrived in Madrid. Our cab pulling from roundabouts and swirling in between […]
People always say technology makes the distance around the world shorter. What about social networks? Earlier this year, the revolution in Egypt was accelerated by a Facebook post called “We Are All Khaled Said.” And after the devastating earthquakes in Japan, social networks have become a major communication channel (since most of the phone lines […]
Everyone knows I love to travel. Being up in the air, take off, few hours later a whole new different city. San Francisco trip is a much-needed getaway since my Washington DC trip in April. Originally it was brewed between my cousin & I whether flying to Arizona experiencing the splendid outdoors or to Seattle […]
