NZ’s Oldest National Park
After a frustrating Airbnb experience — at 7:00pm, the host at the Forgotten World Motel, where we had made a reservation, told us that she had given our room away […]
Monthly Archives: December 2017
Hot Stuff
We spent a full day in and around Rotorua, the heart of geothermal activity in New Zealand. Think hot springs, geysers, bubbling mud, and the smell of sulfur in the […]
Around the Peninsula
For our first day of road tripping, we decided to go around the Coromandel Peninsula. The first thing that we learned when driving here is that New Zealand is much […]
Flying Objects
Prescott and I started our journey to New Zealand on Christmas Eve Day. So when we stepped through immigration at Changi Airport in Singapore, we immediately encountered this guy: I […]
Merry Christmas! (And Cats)
It’s Christmastime in Singapore, which means that the decorations are out in force. Fewer than 20% of Singaporeans are Christian, but this is a huge holiday around here. It helps […]
France Comes to Singapore
The government of Singapore has somehow persuaded the Musee d’Orsay in Paris to lend it 60 paintings for an exhibit at the National Gallery Singapore called “Colors of Impressionism” (my […]
Signs & Sights Around Town
There’s always something new around the corner in Singapore. For example, while Mom, Prescott, and I were away in Vietnam, a wild boar attacked a man in our neighborhood. The […]
The Southernmost Tip of Continental Asia
Prescott and I took a staycation on the island of Sentosa last weekend. I find Sentosa deeply weird. The island bills itself as the “State of Fun” and claims to […]
Traveler Tina 