Category: Trip stops
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Taiwan!
I arrived in Taiwan on March 1. My sister-in-law, Ya-Huei Chen, was born and raised here. She and my brother Johne are spending a few months visiting. I am excited to see the sights, but I am even more excited yo meet Ya-Huei’s relatives.
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Boat Quay
I never got to go on a “Bum Boat” (and I suspect I am spelling it wrong) but we went to Boat Quay one night, had a lovely dinner at a Turkish restaurant and watched them! Plus some great night scenes of the city.
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Boat Quay
I never got to go on a “Bum Boat” (and I suspect I am spelling it wrong) but we had a lovely dinner one night at a Turkish restaurant and watched them! Plus some great night scenes of the city.
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Sentosa Island
We took gondolas over to an island best described as a playground for the rich. It is dedicated to fancy hotels, a Universal Studio, an amusement park, and swimming with dolphins. We didn’t do that fancy stuff! We walked through parks, saw an old fort that used to protect this southern tip of Singapore, and…
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Chinatown in Singapore
Singapore is an ethnically diverse city/island/nation. The most common ethnic group among Singaporeans is Chinese, so Chinatown thrives, but is not the exclusive place where folks with Chinese heritage live. Other common ethnicities for Singaporeans are Malay (from Malaysia) and Indian. There are also many expats from England, Australia, the US and other places.
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Religion in Delhi
I visited three different religious locations on February 16 and tried to learn a bit about each. Above is the biggest Muslim mosque in Delhi. Here is a Hindu temple. Here is a Sikh temple. It is a little hard for me to explain about these religions because I only know a little bit and…
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New Dehli
My tour of New Delhi this morning (2/15) started with the oldest section of Delhi. In the late 1100s, wars between a Hindu king and Muslim king resulted in a new Muslim king crowned in what is now New Delhi. The first stop on my tour shows an area that had about 10 Hindu temples…
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Third Stop: Doha, Qatar February 1 – 8
When I decided to visit countries in addition to Taiwan, I pulled up a map of Asia. My knowledge of geography is not great! I found Qatar right next to Saudi Arabia, but dwarfed by the size. I learned that Qatar has about 2.6 million people, but only about 12 percent of them are…
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NYC Day 3 January 30
On Monday I headed to Brooklyn Heights, home to the amazing Jon and Elizabeth Dabney Hochman. Jon was one of the first people I met in law school, we were in the same small section and we were part of a four-person study group. He and Elizabeth had started dating about a year earlier when…
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