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San Francisco Giants World Series Celebration Photo Essay
For the first time since moving to California from New York City in 1958, the San Francisco Giants are the World Series champions of Major League Baseball. After trouncing the Texas Rangers in 5 games, the team returned to the City by the Bay on Wednesday, November 3, 2010, for …
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Posted in California, Celebrations, Cities, Concerts and Festivals, Featured Posts Slider, Highlights, Major League Baseball, My Favorites, Parties, Photography, San Francisco, United States
Tagged America, Baseball, California, Celebration, Giants, Parade, Photos, San Francisco, Sports, USA, World Series
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Thoughts on Hong Kong, Skylines and Kowloon
Consisting of a few islands and a chunk of mainland connected to China, Hong Kong is really a large and spread out city that also doubles as its own country: much like Singapore. Ferries are the most popular way to get around the islands, offer amazing views of the skyline …
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Chungking Mansions: Bedbugs, Racial Tensions and Closet Sized Rooms
About an hour after the bedbug check, I felt something crawling on my neck, slapped it and looked at my blood-stained hand. Sure enough…bedbugs! I guess they must have been in hiding and came out when they smelled my blood, because they were all over the bed and pillows.
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Friends From Home, Skylines and Giant Buddha Statues in Hong Kong
After eight months with no visitors, Karen (Carrie’s childhood friend), Ben (who Carrie used to nanny for) and Michelle (Karen’s friend) all coordinated the start to their backpacking trips to meet up for a few days in Hong Kong. It was great to have the company, though all of us …
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The Bird and Goldfish Markets
Heading to the Yuen Po Street Bird Market in Hong Kong, I really just expected to see a bunch of birds and supplies for sale. Sure, the market had that, but it also was a hang out place for older Asian men to come and socialize with their birds. In …
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Posted in Cities, Highlights, Hong Kong and Macau
Tagged animals, Bird, Hong Kong and Macau, Yuen Po Street Bird Market
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A Night on the Town Starts at 7-Eleven
Finding drinking in 7-Eleven highly amusing, we grabbed a few beers of our own and joined the fun. Within an hour of socializing, our group had added a pair Australians and a Hong Kong resident from Nigeria named James Later, we quickly looked around and realized that it was, in fact, a brothel. The quote of the night came from one of the Aussie guys who said, “um, we definitely need to leave here. Immediately.”
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Portuguese Streets, Beautiful Buildings and a Lady Gaga Concert in Macau
Located an hour boat ride from Hong Kong, Macau is a completely separate country that feels like a mix between Portugal and Asia. We were originally unsure if we would even go, but after seeing a sign for a Lady Gaga concert at the Venetian hotel and casino we decided …
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Wrapping Up Our Trip in Hong Kong and Macau – This and That
Money in Hong Kong is very weird, with multiple versions of each bill issued by separate banks. At one point I had five different Hong Kong 20 dollar bills in my wallet. The sign next to the line for Hong Kong immigration at the airport read, “Welcome to Hong Kong: …
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Posted in Cities, Hong Kong and Macau, Macau is filled with Portuguese Streets, Beautiful Buildings and Lady Gaga, Observations, Skylines, Racial Tension, Buddha Statues and Good Friends in Hong Kong, This & That - Musings From the Road
Tagged Asia, Hong Kong and Macau, India & Southeast Asia, This and That
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Couchsurfing, Clubbing and Shopping in Bangkok
After our visit to the floating market, we headed back to Bangkok and to the apartment of Tom, a local who we found through Couchsurfing. As he works from home, we quickly dropped our bags off at his sweet apartment and headed out for a day of price checking and …
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Interacting With The Locals in Vietnam is Downright Unpleasant
Nightclubs From the beginning, I had a tough time with most interactions we had with locals in Vietnam. Granted, most of the people we met were some form of shopkeeper and as soon as money was introduced to the equation the nice relationship became mean, rude and angry. However, due …
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Just Passing Through Hanoi and a Shady Couchsurfer
Our time in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, was mostly spent on the move. After a sleepless night in the front seat of our Open Ticket bus with Amelia, we had just enough time to catch the new Harry Potter movie before getting on yet another overnight bus to Sapa. …
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Posted in Cities, Goodnight...And Goodbye, VietNam, Highlights, Vietnam
Tagged Couchsurfing, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Avoiding Taxi Scams and Roaming the Streets of Ho Chi Min
Our bus arrived in Ho Chi Min (formerly Saigon) in the middle of a monsoon and quickly got into a cab to take us to our hotel. After a few blocks, we noticed that the meter was already very high. We told him to stop and asked what was going …
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Chinatown, The Entrapment Towers and the Harlem Globetrotters in Kuala Lumpur
After leaving the airport and finding a hostel in the Chinatown area of Kuala Lumpur, we spent our first day wandering the city and seeing our first movie in the theaters since leaving the USA: Star Trek, which was awesome! Later that night we spent literally hours taking the subway …
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