Third (and fourth) day of my January 2023 trip to Hawaii. My friend and I spent the morning visiting Diamond Head Crater, before hopping onto an afternoon flight to the island of Maui. (For the fourth day, I had a crash course on paddleboard surfing, before a mechanic issue with the rental car ruined the remainder of the day.)
Second day of my January 2023 trip to Hawaii. My friend and I spent the morning visiting Pearl Harbor, and the afternoon on a road trip around the island of Oahu.
First day of my January 2023 trip to Hawaii. My friend and I spent the day visiting the more touristy places in the southeastern part of Oahu island, before enjoying a cozy afternoon at Waikiki beach.
Mid January 2023, my friends and I made a trip to Hawaii. This post would be the firstzeroth day of the trip when we flew United Airlines from Washington Dulles to Honolulu, one of the longest domestic flights in the US.
It’s the first week of 2023, just after New Year's Day, I made a trip to New York City between Jan 2-4 to run some errands. Along the way, I stopped at a few places of interest, of a few hiking trails near Lehigh River and Paterson Great Falls, which would be the focus of this post.
After a minor winter storm, I decided on a final hike of the year of following Tuscarora Trail to Pinnacle Shelter. Unfortunately, the storm created more ice than snow on the trail, with a high number of fallen trees that I had to bail out half way.
If there’s one event to capture the world's attention towards the end of 2022, it should be the ongoing FIFA World Cup, the second most watched sporting event that's held only quadrennially. Besides the deafening roar of fan-packed stadiums and its far-reaching fanfares, there are facets of this world cup that are oftentimes overlooked, like Qatar's heinous human rights records that built the stadiums with something comparable to modern day slavery.
One of such issues is gender equality, that recently made headlines with Iranian protestors, a close ally of Qatar. And if one compares the popularity of this (male) world cup to its female counterpart, it's not hard to realize the latter had been dwarfed by the former pretty much since their inception. On the sidelines, I had some online discussions on this subject, which quickly deteriorated into a debate, first heated, then ugly.
The flights from west Texas for my 2022 Thanksgiving trip to Big Bend National Park, on Black Friday.
Thanksgiving day and fifth day of my 2022 Thanksgiving trip to Big Bend National Park. I would spend most of the day driving back to Odessa, TX, stopping at a few places along the way.
The fourth day of my 2022 Thanksgiving trip to Big Bend National Park. I planned an epic hike for the day, covering both Chisos South Rim and Emory Peak.
