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Author: Old Sean

April 24, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Nanjing: Holographic Buddhas

“Rare are the artworks who can tastefully combine ancient icons in modern formats. The creators…

April 23, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Shanghai: Granting Inertia

“No matter how many ties I experience it, it’s fresh each time. The sensation of…

April 22, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Hohhot: Debt Free by 2020

“The endless cycle of wake, work and sleep with no interruptions is its own type…

April 21, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Beijing: Forever Visa Trips

There’s something bizarre about modern Visa paperwork requiring hard copies of files and the physicals…

April 20, 2023 / Asia

Living in Hohhot : Trust in the Trials

“Nothing says “Guess this is my home” like purging a zone of infestations.” – Old…

April 19, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Hohhot: It’s Always Been Asia

“There’s no better way to get a feel for a city than by walking it.…

April 18, 2023 / Asia

Visiting Beijing: Back in Beijing

“Though in terms of miles, I’ve circled the world several times, this return to Beijing…

April 17, 2023 / North America

Visiting Seattle: Lingering Layovers

“There are pockets of time we can steal back from fate and they prove profoundly…

April 16, 2023 / Alaska

Visiting Denali: Above the Skeeters

“A few moments in the lull of nature gives a human more harmony in an…

April 15, 2023 / Alaska

Visiting Fairbanks: Into the Smoglands

“If there’s true wildness left in the United States in my era, it’s here in…

April 14, 2023 / New England

Visiting New England: Rapid States of Change

“All of my finest and most pervasive daydreams and fantasies as an adult are rooted…

April 13, 2023 / Bogotá

Visiting Bogotá: Flight of the Frantic and Wayward

“I can hope across an entire global hemisphere in a matter of hours, a journey…

April 12, 2023 / Colombia

Visiting Medellín: Green Guy’s Retreat

It’s a pity that more places don’t use arcing cable lines as a primary method…

April 11, 2023 / Bogotá

Visiting Bogotá: Barbarian of the North

“All the best manners seem to involve a quality of silence I’ve proven poor at…

April 10, 2023 / Colombia

Visiting Restrepo: Distantly Recalled

“Part of the trick of traveling is to remain helpful abroad. Mooching for months on…