Travel

55 posts

Personal records of and reflections on going places, being there and coming back home again.

Mon 17 Mar
2008

JFK to SFO to CDG

05:00 PM
Remarks (13)

Excuses, excuses.

Mon 28 Jan
2008

Not by Southwest

07:45 PM
Remarks (16)

Unfortunately, I’m not going to Austin this March.

Thu 20 Dec
2007

Paris Is Burning (for Now)

09:26 PM
Remarks (26)

One more puff before the ban goes into effect — hallelujah.

Tue 11 Dec
2007

Ass Backwards Is Just Right in Paris

06:32 PM
Remarks (17)

User innovations in bicycle sharing.

Tue 04 Dec
2007

From My Left Feet to the Left Bank

08:43 PM
Remarks (13)

Just an update, is all.

Tue 31 Jul
2007

Don’t Ever Leave the Airport

10:31 PM
Remarks (45)

From Albuquerque to New York City in twenty-four hours.

Fri 27 Jul
2007

Way Out West

11:09 PM
Remarks (14)

On holiday in the West.

Mon 19 Mar
2007

SXSW Sxetches

08:13 PM
Remarks (12)

Action drawings from an event where everyone sat around all day.

Wed 28 Feb
2007

Pint-Sized Pictures

07:28 PM
Remarks (14)

Doodles I done drawed in Paris.

Tue 27 Feb
2007

Cities as Applications

08:38 PM
Remarks (19)

Thinking about touristic usability, plus notes on London Heathrow Airport.

Sun 25 Feb
2007

Back from the Future (of Web Apps, and from Paris)

02:47 PM
Remarks (5)

Out of my continental mind.

Sat 17 Feb
2007

Whereabouts, Thereabouts

05:49 PM
Remarks (9)

I crashed before I even set foot on the airplane.

Wed 25 Oct
2006

Mr. France-y Pants

09:29 PM
Remarks (12)

Ho-hum, another trip to Paris, France.

Wed 15 Mar
2006

Report from SXSW

11:55 PM
Remarks (9)

In lieu of live blogging, some after the fact bullets on my SXSW experience.

Wed 07 Dec
2005

Post-Trip Wrap-Up

10:47 AM
Remarks (2)

Back from Viet Nam, jet lagged, but all squared away on Flickr.

Sat 03 Dec
2005

Surfing in Viet Nam

02:30 AM
Remarks (2)

It’s Microsoft country over here.

Tue 29 Nov
2005

Sleepwalking Abroad

03:21 AM
Remarks (8)

Further adventures deeper into Viet Nam.

Wed 23 Nov
2005

First Day Back

05:18 AM
Remarks (9)

First impressions in Saigon again.

Sun 20 Nov
2005

Away from My Desk Right Now

05:03 PM
Remarks (2)

A quick housekeeping post before I head to Newark International Airport.

Sun 06 Nov
2005

Unaware Over There

07:38 AM
Remarks (12)

Back from an oblivious tour of the City of Lights.

Tue 25 Oct
2005

European Vacation

09:28 PM
Remarks (15)

Off to Paris, France for a week.

Wed 18 May
2005

Do the Locomotive

11:47 PM
Remarks (12)

Being stuck on a train without Internet access is actually quite nice.

Mon 14 Mar
2005

That’s It

07:01 PM

So long, Austin, it’s been great.

Sat 12 Mar
2005

LGA to HOU to AUS

04:15 AM
Remarks (7)

American Airlines thought I might like a little tour of the Texas landscape.

Fri 11 Mar
2005

Gate Crashers

07:02 PM

Don’t do as I do when waiting for your plane.

Sat 12 Feb
2005

Headin’ Down South by Southwest

04:06 PM
Remarks (10)

I’ll be heading to the SXSW Interactive Festival in March. Let me know if you’re going too.

Mon 31 Jan
2005

The Sheltered Tennessean

11:22 PM

Living in a bubble in Nashville for a week.

Wed 17 Nov
2004

Blue Boy in a Red State

03:33 PM
Remarks (1)

Report from behind the Republican ramparts.

Mon 24 May
2004

Philadelphia First

11:14 PM

Quick highlights from my first trip to Philadelphia.

Mon 26 Jan
2004

How the West Is Flown

09:53 PM

What you get when you get a plane ticket.

Mon 30 Jun
2003

French Canadians Are People Too

10:56 PM

A quick assessment of Montréal.

Sun 16 Mar
2003

New-monia

05:16 PM

A mysterious ‘respiratory illness’ is wending its way through Southeast Asia.

Thu 13 Mar
2003

Posterization

04:38 PM

The posters of Saigon, where human labor is cheaper than technology.

Sat 23 Feb
2002

See the World

05:32 PM

David Levine’s collection of travel-related ephemera of the 1920s and 30s.

Fri 07 Dec
2001

Go West

04:43 PM

Off to the Golden State.

Mon 09 Apr
2001

Two Items on Flying

03:59 PM

How to upgrade to first class, and the coming Orbitz.

Sun 25 Feb
2001

The Flying Web

07:26 AM

Experiences trying to book a plane ticket on the Web.

Thu 22 Feb
2001

On the Lam, So to Speak

12:00 PM

After all this moving around, it’s only fair to ask, “Am I running from something?”

Meanwhile, Back at the Blog…

12:07 AM

What brought me to Los Angeles.

Wed 07 Feb
2001

And Away I Go

03:27 AM

Update on whereabouts.

Fri 02 Feb
2001

Saigon by Scooter

12:00 PM

Last week I went back to Saigon to spend Têt with my grandmother, aunt, uncle and cousins.

Sun 28 Jan
2001

Saigon to Singapore

11:31 PM

Quick recap: from Saigon to Singapore.

Mon 22 Jan
2001

Gong Xi Fa Cai

11:08 PM

Gong Xi Fa Cai, 2001.

Fri 19 Jan
2001

Visa to Vietnam

05:11 AM

My visa to Viet Nam was approved.

Tue 16 Jan
2001

Journal: 15 Dec 00

09:27 AM

Being back in Singapore is weird, in unexpected ways.

Mon 15 Jan
2001

Just as I Left It

12:00 PM

Much later than expected, a sort of homecoming to Singapore.

Thu 04 Jan
2001

Amsterdam

05:13 AM

Finally left New York, on my way to Singapore.

Wed 13 Dec
2000

You Can Never Go Home Again… Again

12:00 PM

Khoi, when will you ever get out of New York? Actually, next week.

Wed 27 Sep
2000

On Travel

12:00 PM

I couldn’t credibly lay claim to being a true world-class globetrotter, in spite of the fact that my frequent flyer mileage accounts have ballooned since January.

Fri 08 Sep
2000

Anywhere I Go, Here I Am

12:00 PM

Leaving New York a second time isn’t going to be much easier than leaving it the first time.

Wed 16 Aug
2000

Get Back

12:00 PM

After less than a month in Singapore, my company is calling me back to the States temporarily.

Tue 08 Aug
2000

River Place: It’s a Place Near a River

12:00 PM

A tour of the swanky and absurd condominium I rented in Singapore.

Fri 04 Aug
2000

Bargain Toy Bin

12:00 PM

I found a digital camera at the mall today.

Tue 25 Jul
2000

Sydney Shine

12:00 PM

What it’s like on the bottom-side of the world.

Mon 17 Jul
2000

New York, See You Later

12:00 PM
Remarks (1)

As I prepare to leave New York for Asia, some parting thoughts.