In this second annual round-up of the books I’ve read and the beds I’ve slept in, I gotta admit I’m cutting corners on the reading list. Every year, I promise to keep better records, because by December it’s all a jumble. I’m left to cobble together notes, scan my bookshelves, log in to Amazon and […]
It was a bit of an odd year for us in 2016. While we did some trips around the Midwest in the first half of the year (and Kris went to Baja California by herself) we didn’t do much until June. Two reasons for that: we bought a small condo in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to […]
We were prepared to love Hong Kong. It is our first trip to China, and we were looking forward to easing into a very foreign environment by starting with (mostly) English speaking Hong Kong. It didn’t disappoint. So, based on our vast five-day experience, here are our recommendations. Getting to the city from the airport […]
Showing up for a walking tour of Hong Kong on a hot muggy morning after some jet-lagged sleep and less than a day on the ground is maybe not the best way to greet a new city. But by now we’ve learned that joining a Context Travel tour is sort of like having an old […]
One of the best things to do in Hong Kong is take in the views of its dramatic skyline. There are a couple of vantage points: The first, from a tall hotel on the Kowloon side of the harbour. The other is from The Peak on the Hong Kong side. There are two ways to […]
It’s a pretty easy shot when all you have to do is take the elevator up to the observation deck of the Panorama Hotel in Kowloon, dare to walk right up to the edge of the floor (and try not to look down,) and point your camera toward the riot of incandescence and neon that […]
