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📸 Meanwhile: Behind the Camera
Just a quick photography note from behind the camera . . . I’ve updated my photography portfolio with new photo essays from Japan, South Korea, and Shanghai. I’ve also added new images to my ongoing projects — Street Photography and Street Art & Graffiti — and started documenting my apparently inevitable descent into photographing manhole covers. I’m not entirely…
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🇨🇳 What to Drink in Shanghai: A Sip-by-Sip Guide to Shanghai’s Drinks Culture
Shanghai is a BIG place. Roughly 25 million people live within its city limits. By comparison, New York City — the largest city in the US — has about 8 million people. That should give you some idea of the scale of this place. It’s massive. We only had a couple of days in Shanghai,…
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🇨🇳 A Food Tour of Shanghai: A Whole Universe of Bao and Some Chicken Feet
It’s pouring rain in Shanghai today, so the city is a sea of wet umbrellas. ☔️ This morning’s agenda: a walking food tour of Shanghai. Ken was worried we were going to be eating chicken feet. He wasn’t completely wrong. I believe you can learn almost everything about a place by looking at what people…
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🇨🇳 Shanghai: Jade, Tea, and a Whole Lot of Capitalism
As an American, I almost didn’t want to be impressed with Shanghai, but dammit, this is an impressive place. I booked a guide for us so we could maximize our time here. Because I don’t want to spend time figuring stuff out. I want to get straight to the stuff. Our guide, Sunny, took us…
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🛳️ At Sea: En Route to Shanghai, China
At sea days on board the ship are quickly becoming days I look forward to. It’s a nice change of pace – a chance to sleep in, read a book, and just take the day as it comes. I’ve discovered one of the restaurants on board has Swedish pancakes and lingonberries for breakfast. This is…
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📚 Destination Bookshelf: What I Read Before Our Trip to Japan, Seoul & Shanghai
Before we take a trip, I always try to do some reading that connects with our upcoming destination(s). I gravitate toward my favorite genre – historical fiction. For me, historical fiction helps make history more accessible and relatable. Ken is more of a non-fiction guy, but I don’t have the patience to get through A Concise…