The whole four days we were in Shanghai, a curtain of cold and gloom hung heavy over the city in an ominous sort of manner. But at night, it was a different story. This fog only served to enhance the skyline lit up along the Bund and over the water in Pudong. We snuck up [...]
Photo Friday: Lantau Island, Hong Kong
December 9, 2011 By 27 Comments
While in Hong Kong last month, we went on a Semester at Sea FDP with Professor Jim Huffman and took the hour-long bus ride over to Lantau Island, the biggest of the Islands District isles and home to the Hong Kong International Airport, as well as Disneyland. Our first stop was to the ancient fishing [...]
Photo Friday: Hong Kong, SAR
November 18, 2011 By 32 Comments
After Vietnam, we sailed to Hong Kong, where many of the students took a ferry directly across the bay to do a little Macau gambling at the likes of the Venetian, MGM Grand and the Wynn. While I had just done the Macau thing two years ago, SVV and I opted to kill some time [...]
Photo Friday: Hong Kong
December 3, 2010 By 18 Comments
Brief shop keep: I entered Kiwi Collection’s Dream100 contest—you all should, too! there’s still time!—and am hoping to get 100 “likes” on Facebook. Everyone who gets 100 likes, gets an automatic $100. Tis the season to not be greedy, so I’d give my $100 directly to Passports With Purpose. Don’t know what that is? Wellll, [...]
Macau: Beyond the Casinos
November 17, 2010 By 17 Comments
Twenty Formula 3 race cars vroom by, sending late afternoon sunbeams scattering across the track. The noise of tires skating against turns at speeds of 160 miles per hour is deafening to spectators, who don’t seem the least bit bothered by it. (Earplugs are a godsend.) The fall breeze off the sea keeps the heat [...]
