Exhausted
In a few days I’ll be on the road for a year. And right now, I’m exhausted. I wish it was something coffee could deal with. I’m not tired from traveling as such. I guess it’s just a combination of the last few months. I haven’t slept much in Montréal and Seattle… maybe five hours a night, […] Read More
Interesting times
‘May you live in interesting times’ is said to be a Chinese curse, that we all have heard at one point or the other. Seeing the protest that have sprung up in Hong Kong over the organization of somewhat free elections promised for 2017, I came to realize that I have ‘escaped’ a few political […] Read More
Liebster Award
Slowly, the blog has been gaining readers. I can see the clicks rise, a little here, a little there, then fall again…. But I can definitely see my followers on Twitter increase a lot lately, and it’s not only people who follow me back, but people that seem to discover me, somehow. It is a great […] Read More
Got it
The trip can go ahead as planned. Today, the Visa for India arrived from Germany, with DHL. Some 200 Euros for the whole process. Better be worth it… I’m still getting weird messages from the Agency in San Francisco, wanting me to fill-out a non-attached form in order to re-fund me, and not responding since… Read More
Asian update
The past days I was busy planning a bit more of the Asian leg of my journey. First, I booked a place to stay in Hong Kong. I’ll be in the Sai Ying Pun Neighborhood on Hong Kong Island. It sounded good, was affordable, and seems to be well connected with public transport. I will stay […] Read More
Future Chinese Adventures
I have a flight into Hong Kong on 15 October. Hong Kong because: a) the flight was available to get with my miles, and b) because Will, who let us stay in his apartment in Melbourne, lives close-by in a multi-million city called Jiangmen. So, pending the open Indian Visa question, I hope to get a Visa […] Read More
100.000
Somewhere on the way to Mexico City, maybe half an hour before landing, I have crossed the 100.000 kilometer threshold on this trip. I just updated my travel statistics and realized that, all different means of transport combined – planes, cars, busses, ferries and trains – I have travelled approximatively 100.400 kilometers. In detail, I – […] Read More
Off to Mexico City
On and on and on and on…. I’m off to Mexico City tonight. It’s an overnight flight, I leave just after 11 and arrive at 5.30 in the morning – jumping two hours back in the process. I’ll be picked up at the airport, meet my Airbnb hosts , and then probably sleep in. Here […] Read More
Indian Visa, round two
Just when I thought the visa for India is on track, I get this email from the agency dealing with it, basically saying… well, what exactly? The following Documents are incomplete:- 1)proof of address not acceptable, if not resident of san francisco is not able to apply tourist visa to india. 2) provide legal valid […] Read More
Visa application
I spent the last two days assembling my visa application for India. Honestly, without Renato’s patience and help, I would not have made it. It’s a cumbersome, bureaucratic, ridiculous process. The embassy has outsourced the check of the documents to a private company, which only forward the complete, correctly filled out applications to the embassy. However, […] Read More