American friends, or friends who are living in America, how was your Thanksgiving? Did you have a safe and healthy holiday? Celebrating such a family-oriented holiday during the pandemic was tricky. Traveling to meet the family is one thing but what if I get them sick? I was lucky that I had Stephen here to […]
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Alaska, What are these odd-looking bikes? When I first visited Alaska, I saw odd-looking bikes being ridden around the trails. It was deep in the winter during January and trails were covered with ice and snow. I was on a pair of cross-country skis and someone passed by on one of those bikes. What were
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Kerala is Human by Nature For travelers, Kerala is the Perfect Balance A trip to Kerala isn’t just about indulgence or deep inner reflection or strictly cultural growth. It’s the perfect balance of everything that travel in India offers. And you can have it all in one trip to just one region of India. Kerala
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To be home, or not to be home. I left Korea after the famous Bucket Living transition, and that’s already almost ten years ago. At that time, all I wanted was to live in foreign countries, experience something different, just be out in the world. So I left. Living and working on the road led
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Explore Alaska’s Denali National Park and Preserve through the Road Lottery Seeing the tallest mountain in the world in the morning light was really breathtaking. I’m talking about the peak of Denali in Denali National Park in Alaska. The mountain’s face was clearly visible and all the ridges almost looked distorted due to the fresh
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Nuuk: The biggest city in the biggest island in the world Why do I go north? What is that draws me to the vast, inhospitable land beyond the northerly limit of tree growth? Is it true that the Arctic has a fascination for certain people and that “there is no cure but to put them
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Here’s my insider tips for how to photograph northern lights photos in Alaska Growing up as an astronomy enthusiast in a big city, I dreamt of seeing the aurora in real life one day. I seized every opportunity to look at the dark sky and deep sky objects. I continued pursuing these opportunities during my
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Denali Highway: 135 Miles to Explore this Summer Denali Highway. Don’t be fooled by its name; it’s not a smooth-paved highway that runs through a city. It’s 135 miles of rugged gravel road that connects two remote towns and highways in interior Alaska. This Highway was the only access to Denali National Park before the
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COVID 19 and Quarantine certainly changed things a bit. How did it change you? The longest March ever has passed. April and May weren’t great either. And now we’ve just passed the longest day of the year (Summer Solstice). It’s already the end of June. The first half of 2020 seemed like the shortest
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Beginning Saturday, June 6, 2020 at 12:01am travelers arriving into Alaska from another state or country must follow new protocols. Please check COVID-19 related updates on the website from the State of Alaska. Hope. What a great name for a place, right? It is the perfect place to go for a forest bathing during this
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