Ever since my first step in French Polynesia in 2015 (the country where the famous Bora Bora island is located in case you never heard of French Polynesia or commonly referred to as Tahiti), it totally changed my definition of tropical paradise. I couldn’t find anywhere so far that can be compared to the beauty… Read More French Polynesia 2019, I am back! Part 1 – Moorea
Our flight from Tallinn to Copenhagen via Riga was nearly empty in this brand new Airbus A200-300. I like the modern and practical design for short range flight like the bottle holders: Each row has a mini overhead monitor that display useful info such as connection flight gates. The 2-2 configuration is my favorite for… Read More Copenhagen and its Christmas Markets
With all those fare sales (WOW Air’s $49 one way to Iceland) and mistake fares (Cathay Pacific’s business class for $650 from Vietnam), don’t you wish that you can take advantage on some of those ultra cheap fares? Especially, for a surprise getaway with your other half! They’re the ones who bring us joy and… Read More 5 tips for how to quickly book a trip
With sunrise at 8:33 am, we had no trouble getting up for that since we are early birds. However, it was totally cloudy so there was no reason to go out for sunrise. We took our time and had a wonderful breakfast in the hotel which was included due to my Marriott Platinum status that… Read More Magical Tallinn and its Christmas Market
We don’t celebrate Christmas but Christmas markets in Europe have this magical feeling that I have been wanting to experience. It’s tricky because the most famous Christmas markets are in France, Germany, Austria…countries that we have been to and also a higher risk of terrorist attacks. Jason is very well risk-averse that even the beautiful… Read More Long Weekend at Tallinn, Estonia where I had gotten the best upgrade ever at Hotel Telegraaf
Our last lottery attempt, we were thinking the night before if we won the lottery, it’ll be totally worth to change our flight and everything. Well that didn’t happened 🙁 The 5th try was 30 applications with only 63 people (half the number when we first arrived) so the chance was over 15%! We were… Read More Utah 2018 Day 4 – Valley of the Fire
Before the crack of dawn, we left Monument Valley to get back to Kanab by 8:45 AM to enter the lottery again. We passed through Page, Arizona on the way just before sunrise so we decided to make a short stop at the Horseshoe Bend. It was already a lot of people there early in… Read More Utah 2018 Day 3 – Coral Pink Sand Dunes and Toadstool Hoodoos
Day 2 in Utah, it became a daily routine of wake up, quick breakfast, then to the BLM Kanab Visitor Center for The Wave walk-in lottery. What was different today was that we checked out of the hotel since we’ll be heading straight to Monument Valley right after the lottery. On our 3rd entry, we… Read More Utah 2018 Day 2 – Monument Valley
Last year’s Veteran’s Day weekend, we went to Bryce and Zion National Parks. While at Zion, we drove over to Kanab, Utah to try our luck at the lottery to get in the 10 slots to hike the most hard to get into hiking trail – The Wave. Of course we failed to win two… Read More Utah 2018 Day 1 – The Incredible White Pocket
Wow, just got an email from Explore NZ by Go Rentals in New Zealand that I was named one of the 19 Best Travel Bloggers in the USA! I don’t enter travel blogger contest (except being nominated by my readers) or pay any fees to those travel bloggers’ society, groups, organization, etc. so it was… Read More Explore NZ – 19 Best Travel Bloggers in the USA and I am one of them!
