I took the above picture from near my home in Seoul for 2.5 years. It can be difficult to know where exactly we need to be and what we need to be doing. Paramount among the quest for a pleasant lifestyle is answering where we want to live, how close to friends and family, […]
Read More Lifestyle DesignMy cheap mechanical Swatch tells me that it is September 30th. Today marks nine months of being out in the world. In February of this year I departed the normal salary-man life and managed to circle the globe twice. On a few occasions I got angry enough to throw a punch or two. Minor crises […]
Read More Nine Months of TravelIn Okinawa I met a couple in their early forties that were raising their children in a traditional one-room Okinawan house. They invited me in for tea, plucked a papaya from a tree in the back and served it, and we got to some basic conversation. I learned that both of them moved from Tokyo […]
Read More Traveling Shapes my Personal PhilosophyI spent a few days in the jungle on a small island of Okinawa living outdoors under a mosquito net. The average temperature was a sweltering 90 degrees. My hut was situated next to the beach at the edge of the jungle and was equipped with a fire pit, firewood, a large rain water cistern, […]
Read More A few days in the jungle with no electricity and no running waterHave you ever seen a full moon-rise over the ocean? I witnessed one from a small island in Okinawa, Japan. In early September at around eight at night a sea of ink black water meets a grayish blue sky. Deep black silhouettes of mountains flank either side of the periphery and frame the scene. From […]
Read More Moon-rise in OkinawaThis is the view I had while street dancing at Stravinsky Fountain in Paris. When I was a seventeen year old freshman in college sitting in a computer lab I was flanked by an South Indian looking kid to my left and an East Asian looking kid to my right. No big deal. We start […]
Read More Bonjour from ParisSan Diego happened recently. I was there for a total of five days. One day was dedicated to a grueling 8-hour long technical engineering interview. The other four days were left for recovery from said interview and some good old fashioned city exploration. My two objectives in prioritized order were to stuff my face with […]
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