Wilmington, Delaware is a piece of East Coast suburbia that feels like a new utopia created for a post-apocalyptic future. I can describe it no better than by saying the trash cans on the street are never more than 30% full. Compare that to New York, the great American dirt-hole, where trashcans are 120% full…
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…
Storm King Art Center is perfect for a day trip out of New York on a mild summer’s day. Presumably it’s also good on a warm spring or fall day or a heatwave in the middle of winter. So, if I were to rewrite this opening, I might have said Storm King Art Center is…
We almost missed the chance to see grizzly bears, moose, caribou, and wolves in their natural habitat in Denali National Park, Alaska. Here’s our Tundra Wilderness Tour experience. The Tundra Wilderness Tour was part of our rail tour, which you can read more about here. We were told to meet at the entrance of the…
Alaska has by far the biggest land mass of any US State. Its natural beauty is unparalleled anywhere in the world. Yet most people visiting Alaska stay on cruise ships and don’t even see the interior, which is like going to a zoo and only seeing the gift shop. You’re missing the good stuff! With…
To understand what happened on that bus at 8pm outside a cheap hotel in Toronto you first have to understand Wilson. Wilson was the guide on our bus tour to Niagara Falls and Toronto. It was a bilingual English-Chinese 3-day-tour leaving from New York City. Wilson wore dark pants and a wool sweater under a…
Astoria, Queens was named after John Jacob Astor, who was once the wealthiest man in America. You might imagine therefore that Mr. Astor was born in what was then known as Hallett’s Cove and the village renamed themselves in his honor. That would be understandable and frankly quite boring. In reality, Mr. Astor never set foot in the…
Soon we’ll be visiting the Arctic Circle from Alaska. I’m so excited! After much procrastination and indecisiveness, we’ve booked roundtrip flights to Alaska, a train tour from Anchorage to Fairbanks, and an additional 17-hour day trip from Fairbanks north to the Arctic Circle. That final day trip is described thusly: Travel in The Far North…
Friends, this is the tragic story of James the Giant Dresser, who sadly is no longer with us. It’s a very sad tale, so please don’t read if you’re easily upset. First, an intro to James. He was the huge dresser that we bought in September 2015 from a second-hand furniture adoption website. Two men brought…
This is a sort-of-guide on how to eat seafood. But let me start by saying I don’t really eat seafood. I’d probably go so far as to say I don’t like it. Occasionally I’ll encounter a calamari, squint at it, maybe even lick it, then order a burger. But for my birthday, my loving girlfriend…