We just moved into our new condo apartment in Singapore. Now we’re in comparable spaces, let’s look at New York City vs Singapore apartments. Hint: we upgraded in almost every way. First, let me explain what we’re comparing. In Singapore, we’re in a one-bedroom on the 5th floor of a condo in the Bukit Timah…
Let’s do something fun. Let’s compare the New York City and Singapore metro/subway systems and declare a winner. (It will be fun, I swear.) So, New York City or Singapore? 1. Number of people killed – New York City or Singapore? Somebody told me in Singapore that after a number of fatalities from people stepping onto the…
My host in New York City led me blindfolded to Times Square. I’d only met Mike that morning so for all I knew he was leading me the opposite direction to some underground prison where he’d do weird things to me involving coleslaw and shoelaces. But thankfully, and perhaps not surprisingly, that didn’t happen. After…
I flew over New York City in a helicopter. I’d like to say it was because Michael Bloomberg owed me a favor after I rescued his dog from being run over by a truck in Brooklyn, but it was actually just because I was so good at not spending my student loan on anything other…
Below are five reasons to visit the New York Botanical Garden. After five years in New York, we finally got around to visiting the New York Botanical Garden. Now, I know what you’re thinking. This is a freaking travel website and I live in New York, so I’m basically cheating by writing about New York….
I’m moving to New York tomorrow. I start with that simple statement because as I write this I’ll keep looking at it and hopefully it’ll finally sink in that it’s actually happening. It’s been months (or what feels like months) of paperwork and documents and visa shenanigans and emails and calls with my HR department to…
Good news everyone! We’re venturing out, out of our apartment, out of our neighborhood, out of New York City even. We’re planning a 2 day trip to Bear Mountain. It’s been more than three months now since I’ve even left a few square mile radius around our apartment in Queens. But it’s my better half’s…
Tonight we’re spending a romantic night in Bali a private villa nestled in some rice terraces in Bali, so let me tell you about that. It’s a really beautiful place with Scrtch scrtch scrtch What the heck was that? Scrtch scrtch scrtch There it is again. It’s coming from just outside the bedroom door, in the kitchen. We’re city…
Coronavirus, COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, Great Plague of 2020, whatever your choice vernacular is, has us all stuck at home. Our trip to Savannah, Charleston, and a cruise to the Bahamas was well and truly shuttered a long time ago. But there are ways of traveling despite coronavirus, as I set out to find out when I…
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