Last night I finally got back to night hiking and joined Seoul Hiking Group at Achasan (Acha mountain).  It was the same path I took a few months ago but now I…

The Horror, The Horror is Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “first-hand account of the WTC attacks and subsequent evacuation from Lower Manhattan residence. A heavily forwarded e-mail that became the subject of an article…

My co-workers Susan, Steph and I decided to head to Japan for this Chuseok’s (Korean Thanksgiving) long weekend.  We stopped for the night in Tokyo before flying to Kochi where my college…

Son Doong’s Garden of Edam peeked through the next passage like a half moon keeping a wary eye on foreign travelers.  Hiking once more in the dark, our headlamps illuminated bulbous calcite…

Breakfast our second morning in Son Doong proved even more delicious than the first.  Sitting at a picnic table eating fruit-filled fresh crepes boggled our minds as we imagined the prehistoric scene…

Time to take a break from my Vietnam adventure to jump back to my reunion with Warren Kim & Seoul Hiking Group at the Yeongdong Grape Festival.  I’m super excited to announce…

365 days ago I landed at Incheon International Airport and immediately began one of the biggest changes in my life.  In spite of some difficult times I’ve had an incredible experience full…

I need your help; I’m submitting some photos for a Korean Tourism Photo contest and can’t decide which photos to use! I narrowed it down to 10 choices but can only submit…

Mother nature’s alarm clock began to ring as soon as light shone through Hang En’s massive entrance above us; with any luck we’d arrive at Son Doong by this afternoon but as…

After a series of plane rides from Seoul to Hanoi and finally to Dong Hoi I was picked up by Oxalis for my trip into Son Doong, the world’s largest cave.  From…