A Chengdu Weekend

Taking a vacation because your frequent flyer miles are about to expire is not the worse of reasons to take a vacation. In mid-October, Jun received a message that he needed to use his miles or lose a significant amount of them. After discussing the merits of where we could go given the number of…Read more A Chengdu Weekend

Incredible India, Indeed

For our third wedding anniversary, Jun and I decided to go to India for 10 days. I had always wanted to visit India since I was a child. Having read E. M. Forster, Rudyard Kipling, Salman Rushdie, Arundhati Roy, Aravind Adiga, and many more, India tantalized my imagination and was always a place I wished to visit.…Read more Incredible India, Indeed

Quintessential Quanzhou

After going back and forth with the pros and cons of taking a trip during the Mid-Autumn Festival so close to the Chinese National Day holiday, Jun and I decided that we would take a trip. Since we waited pretty late to book this trip, we basically searched for a place where there were still…Read more Quintessential Quanzhou

A Bangkok Birthday

To celebrate Jun’s birthday, we ventured to Bangkok for a long weekend. We started our trip by heading to the airport for our flight in the evening. Everything at the airport went smoothly and we were soon on our way to Bangkok. Immigration went quickly and our taxi quickly got us to the hotel—Lebua at…Read more A Bangkok Birthday

The Temple Trek

Wanting to do something different during one of our weekends, I asked Jun if he was interested in visiting the National Forest Park of Mount Guanyin in Dongguan. He said he was and asked if we could invite his cousin to come with us. I was okay with it. We then decided that we would…Read more The Temple Trek

Reunion in Yongping

While in the U.S., Jun’s mom contacted us and asked if we would come to Yongping—Jun’s mom’s hometown—for the birthday celebration of Jun’s aunt. In addition to the birthday, Jun’s mom was going to have a house warming party for her new apartment in the family’s new house. It was essentially going to be a…Read more Reunion in Yongping

Puebloan Adventures

During our stay in Oklahoma, my mom, Jun, and I decided to take a short road trip to Colorado. After thinking about where we would like to go, we settled on visiting Durango and the surrounding area. Day 1 The drive to Durango from Guthrie took us between 11 to 12 hours. Fortunately, Mom and…Read more Puebloan Adventures

This Oklahoman Life

Home is family. Since I married Jun I consider myself as having two homes. One in China with Jun, and one in Oklahoma with my mom and brother. After three weeks of traveling around the Americas, Jun and I were finally going to visit them. And for us to go home. The flight into Oklahoma…Read more This Oklahoman Life

A Jaunt in Las Vegas

When we had started to plan our trip, everything was working out well until we had to arrange how we would get to Oklahoma. Arriving from South America late in the afternoon made it impossible to get the only direct flight to Oklahoma City from LAX. One option we had toyed around with was to…Read more A Jaunt in Las Vegas

Peruvian Explorations

When we first planned this month-long trip, the one place we kept circling back on was Machu Picchu in Peru. We played around with different possibilities, but it always ended up being quite expensive. Then on a lark we checked a travel website and saw that Avianca had a sale for that week and the…Read more Peruvian Explorations