My parents recently have been all about national parks when it comes to vacations especially since they now have the lifetime national park pass. Since my dad teaches and has spring break early March, they wanted to go somewhere with national parks. Most places in early March are probably still pretty cold and a lot …
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I'm a 30 year old Taiwanese American that loves to travel. My favorite part about traveling is eating and I practice the belief that there's no such thing as a diet while traveling! ;P
Eating & Drinking Our Way through NYC (Day Four)
On our last day in New York, we got up pretty late. We were also flying back to Los Angeles this day so when we were planning our trip, we did not make any plans for this day and said we would play by ear. In the end we decided we wanted to have lunch …
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Eating & Drinking Our Way through NYC (Day Three)
We did not have a lot of plans for our third days especially during the daytime. While I was hungry and waiting for my friend to wake up, I was browsing UberEats and saw Katz Delicatessen on the app. I ended up looking it up and saw that it was not too far away. Technically …
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Eating & Drinking Our Way through NYC (Day Two)
For breakfast on our second day, I was trying to figure out this place I saw Top Chef Brooke Williamson post about in Chinatown that sold Cantonese rice noodle rolls (腸粉). Apparently there are a lot of places in Chinatown who make these fresh and I could not find the Instagram post (maybe it was …
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Eating & Drinking Our Way through NYC (Day One)
Last year in 2020, Jetblue had a giveaway where you could nominate a healthcare worker to win two roundtrip flights. One of my friends, a public health nurse, that I nominated won a pair and with the tickets expiring at the end of 2021, we were brainstorming where to go and decided on New York …
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Fun-packed Weekend in Las Vegas
This past weekend was my first "pleasure" flight since the pandemic started. I had flown twice in Q4 2020 but those were necessary whereas this was for fun. I did test both before and after my flights back in 2020 but I have been fully vaccinated since February and most of my friends and family …
An Overdue Update
So looking back, my last update was about my Central Europe trip and I only wrote about half the trip. Looking in my draft posts, I was prepared to write three more posts but COVID-19 happened and I ended up taking a pause on this blog. Between my last post and the actual start of …
Central Europe (A Globus Tour): Vienna, Austria
On the morning of the third day, I finished packing and left my suitcase outside my door for it to be collected and placed on the bus. Your tour director gives you a luggage tag to attach to your bag to make it easy for it to be collected and placed on the correct bus. …
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Central Europe (A Globus Tour): Budapest, Hungary
When I arrived at my hotel in Budapest, my tour group already finished their introductory meeting and was headed into the hotel restaurant so I missed all their introductions and review of the itinerary and optional excursions. Luckily, my parents had arrived in the morning so they got all the information otherwise I would have …
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Central Europe (A Globus Tour): Traveling to Budapest
When you book a Globus tour you have a few options when it comes to airfare. You can book your own flights and pay only a land tour price or you can have Globus book your flights with an air + land package. If you choose to have Globus book your flights you can choose …
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one trip led to another 