As you guys know I made the somewhat smart, somewhat foolish choice to visit Niagara Falls in the winter this last year. And while I definitely want to go in warm weather next time I visit, I do think it’s totally worth going in the snowiest, coldest season of the year, and here’s why! Yep,…
Happy January! Yup, it’s very cold in Pennsylvania. Right now as I write this, there’s some crazy cold front spreading around the north, and I hate it with everyone shivering bone in my body. Anyway, January has been a relatively calm month. I had one big trip with Niagara Falls, which I was really scared…
At 3,776 meters high, you don’t often hear about visitors hiking Mt Fuji in Japan. Beyond avid hiking circles, most visitors prefer to see the volcano from afar. Climbing Mt Fuji, especially to see the sunrise, is not an easy feat. When I found out my friend, Nicole had decided to hike up to the…
The Gurye Sansuyu Festival is one of the first Korean flower festivals in spring since they begin to blossom in mid-March! Here’s a complete guide on how to visit. Even though Namwon is only a few stops away from Gurye, it wasn’t until I living in Suncheon, that I finally went to see the sansuyu…
Oh howdy from Taipei! I’m writing this from my Airbnb while it rains like crazy outside (and finishing it on Valentine’s Day *cough*). I’ve just been in Hualien and Jiufen for the last week, so I haven’t been nearly as active as I thought I could be in terms of writing and doing a lot…
Here’s what to expect hiking between two mountain temples, Seonamsa and Songgwangsa, on Jogyesan, near Suncheon. Spoiler alert: Like most of my hiking in Korea, I was a bit unprepared… One of the more underrated things to do in Suncheon is to visit one of its two main mountain temples, Seonamsa or Songwangsa, and go…