Guangdong: Mar 21 - 23

gaoming - zhaoqing - de qing

Chinese Concrete

Forget pandas, Ming architecture and Confucian riddles. That's a painting. To begin with, China sprawled like a country-sized construction site.

Earth-movers and semi-trailers rumbled past pounding jackhammers, tracking dirt and scattering gravel. Elderly Han streetsweepers with milky eyes and faces like carved wood worked their oversized straw brooms towards the road shoulder. There sit mounds of crushed rock, broken concrete, cement and rebar.

Hong Kong: Mar 8 - 20

Hong Kong(plane)

The Glam, the Grime and the Waiting

It turns out people fly to Hong Kong just to shop. Apparently that's a thing.

It was hard not to feel a little out of place as the unlicensed taxi made its way past the looming steel and glass facades of Tsim Sha Tsui, Kowloon.

Koh Tao: Feb 27 - Mar 5

KOH TAO (FERRY)

Koh Tao: Take Two

I first visited Koh Tao in early 2009. Back then, it was part of a short Southeast Asian jaunt that started the itch for something bigger.

Nearly three years later, here I was again.