Palm Springs | Back to my groove.

Strangely, I haven’t flown since early April. So this trip to Palm Springs was both a little foreign and a little familiar. Like normal, I chose to sleep instead of packing, so the morning of my flight I packed like a mad woman, filling my suitcase with random outfits and doodads.  I’d be shooting in [...]

Vancouver | the journey home

I’ll start my series of blog posts of my most recent trip to Vancouver with the story of how I left. I woke up fresh and well-rested in my room at the Pinnacle Hotel in North Vancouver.  As was my custom, I pulled opened the curtains and slid open the door to my balcony.  Breathe. [...]

My second home

august adventure 24: the airport, my second home.

Dance of a Nomad: Day 14, Virginia Airports.  Don’t you just love them?  As an architecture student, airports were those project designed by my creatively brilliant classmates.  I saw airports as expressions of a city’s wealth or fame or personality.  The best cities erected modern, innovative and sleek airports, and, of course, the only airports [...]

airport architecture

I made it to Vegas safe and sound.  Isn’t this facade at McCarran Airport gorgeous?

Terminal

I like to pretend I’m Tom Hanks in The Terminal. Every now and then, for one reason or another, I find myself staying overnight in airports like I did in Thailand, Austin and Baltimore.  On my most recent trip to Hispaniola Island, my flight itinerary on Delta created two overnight dilemmas.  On my flight to the [...]

Travel Ritual.

It is customary (nearly mandatory) for me to procrastinate and pack last minute when I travel.  I suppose it could be my overconfidence in my ability to pack or my laziness or even my “busy” life.  All in all, packing usually starts after midnight (when I have morning or afternoon flights) with a loud anthem [...]

Peru 4: Amazement.

Peru Day 1: Lima airport and Cusco Traveling to Cusco, Peru was quite an arduous experience. I flew from San Francisco to Houston, then Houston to Lima where I would end my trip with a final flight to Cusco. The flights were ordinary and very manageable, except for the last. I landed in Lima at [...]

Airports + Sunrise.

All these pictures look basically the same, but there differences if you pay attention.

The kind of heart

So I’m sitting in the airport at 10pm, waiting for my 6am flight the following day. This is the second time I’ve been in this situation. For one reason or another I just can’t get to the airport for the early morning flight, so I’ll head out the airport the night before. Anyway, I’ll sit [...]