Travel Budget: Hong Kong Hong Kong is a great city, consistently one of my favorites in the world. However its a place where costs start to add up immediately, and I end up spending way more than I expected every time I go. So, here’s a realistic look at what […]
Tag: China
China’s Misty Mountains (R)
China’s Misty Mountains The day before, having walked up and then accidentally halfway down and then back up the mountain, I fell into an exhausted and not entirely happy sleep in an overpriced dorm room. Waking up on the day of the video, then, I found Huangshan covered in snow […]
Photo Slideshow: China (R)
I have trouble accurately describing how and why I like being and living and traveling in China so much. Part of it though is that so many places have such a strong exotic-feeling ambiance and are so easy to take pictures of that look really dissimilar to anything I’d find […]
Music at the Hotan Bazaar (R)
As I wandered around the Big Bazaar in Hotan, Xinjiang province a couple of street (storefront?) musicians were gracious enough to give me the go ahead to film them playing. If I had known my flight would take off a day late, I probably would have stayed around to watch […]
Hohhot (R)
Hohhot was, in my experience, a dreadful city. Not much to do, nowhere decent to stay on the cheap, and really difficult to understand public transit system. My one really positive memory from Hohhot was the 5 Tower Temple, which looks so stunningly NOT Chinese-Buddhist that I had to hang […]
Neon in the Night (R)
My first day back in China, I spent mainly sleeping away the afternoon trying to catch up on the sleep I’d missed during a massive stretch of air -planes and -ports. I did, however, manage to wander on the way to dinner a bit, just long enough to find this […]
Hey there! I'm Stephen, this is my travel blog, and that's me in the poofy hat.
I'm a photographer / writer traveling since 2008, and I've been doing my best to visit amazing places.
My current focus is Central Asia, because for a hiking and camping enthusiast it's as good as it gets.