Category: Travel

Hotel Room

I have a really hard time booking hotels because I’ve spent so much of my life traveling solo and sleeping in dorms. But I totally...

Park Tower

This is the tourist tower at Xinhao Shan Park in the old part of Qingdao. From a distance, I think it looks like a Studio...

Ghibli Towers

This is Signal Hill Park (Xinhao Shan 信号山) in Qingdao. It is one of the ten important hill parks in Qingdao, and was very close...

Do Not Beat

The sign on this aquarium tank in China says, “Do not beat.” With my daughter posed the way she is, it’s somewhat ambiguous whether they...

Cool Corner

Phoenix, Arizona is all suburb and no city. Growing up there accustomed me to a certain architectural homogeneity. On my first trip to Europe, I...