Going Green
Nina, Nelson and I started our last day in Bali at Ubud’s Sacred Monkey Forest. Here, hundreds of semi-tame long-tailed macaques swing through the trees and — more often — […]
Tag Archives: Animals
Welcome to Bali
My friend Nina and her son Nelson have come to visit from Baltimore, and we’re taking a three-day weekend in Bali! Of Indonesia’s thousand plus islands, this one is the […]
The Sunshine Coast
Brisbane sits smack in the middle of Australia’s eastern coast, and beaches spread out both to the north and to south of the city. The northern area is known as […]
The Hinterland
In Queensland we stayed in a region called the Hinterland, an area up in the hills north of Brisbane, just beyond the Glass House Mountains. I love the name — […]
Wombat Pats
Every year the high school at the Singapore American School shuts down for one week in February so that all of the students can have an “interim” experience embarking on […]
All Along the Briny Deep
We’ve made the crossing from the North Island to the South, relinquishing our rental car in Wellington on a cloudy morning … … and making our way across Cook Strait […]
The Most Remote Capital City in the World
When we ask people on the North Island what their favorite city in New Zealand is, the universal answer is “Wellington,” the country’s capital. So we arrived with high hopes. […]
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 […]
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 […]
