Planning a trip in the internet age is easier and more difficult than ever before.  The internet gives you access to everything you need to plan a trip, but it also provides so much information that it becomes difficult to filter through it all.  It used to be that you’d buy a guide book from…

I stole this from Travis Sherry at Extra Pack of Peanuts  podcast.  At the end of every year, he likes to track how many nights he traveled, how many countries visited, and how many miles traveled by air, land, road, or sea.  I didn’t think I cared enough to do it until I started and…

I don’t like to count countries.  I want to see the world, but I’m not a mission to see a certain amount of countries by some arbitrary deadline.  I want to be able to go back to places I love and not feel like I “wasted” a trip because I didn’t hit another country. However,…

I first started keeping a top 10 list in 2015 when my wife and I wanted to see how similar are travel destination goals were.  I update it about every three to 6 months as I hear about new places that grab a hold of my ADD wanderlust mind.  It’s still a top 10, but…

Here’s a snapshot of where I lived and where I went.  Some of the places are where I went all the time and others are where I wished I could go all the time.  The places I would take my friends when they visited. Unfortunately, I’m so old that we didn’t take pictures of our…

Here are my favorite beers of 2019.  Based strictly on taste and judged by the type of beer.  I tend to lean towards IPAs (especially hazy) stouts and German style beers.  So my rankings will reflect that.   All drafts had to be consumed at a bar or brewery in the town they are brewed, but…

It’s time for my annual ranking of my top 5 beer experiences of 2019.  Fun to go through my instagram and untappd and see what stood out. Here are the ground rules: This is based on the quality of beer and/or the atmosphere where it was imbibed.  I might rank a good atmosphere over a…

Day 4 Today was a transition day.  I switched sides and moving across the bay from Hong Kong Island to Tsim Tsa Tsui on the Kowloon side of Hong Kong. I wouldn’t be able to check in to the next hotel until 3pm, so I had plenty of time for coffee and a breakfast.  I…

Trip Background October 21, 2018 to October 29, 2018 This was a 7 night trip for just my wife and myself.  My wife had to go to China for 3 nights for work but needed to fly into Hong Kong first.  So, I came with her.  This was my first trip to Asia so I…

Trip Background June 3, 2019 to June 18, 2019 This was a 7 night trip for just my wife and I.  She went to China twice a year for work and often ended that part of the trip in Hong Kong.  This was my first trip to Asia, but I decided to stay in Hong…