Travel Moments

Boy, I think I don’t spend enough time with our cat 西施 (Xi Shi)… She’s obviously missing Helene, who is currently in Thailand enjoying sunshine and quiet. Yesterday, when I got back home around midnight, the phone was off the ...

Like I said in my previous post, Helene is currently doing her best to enjoy the island of Samui in Thailand, while I toil away and do my best to finish Splinter Cell Double Agent. Being alone was fun for ...

I tell you; it’s a weird psychological process to begin to think about going back to my home country after 3 years abroad. If Helene and I had decided we wanted to stay in Shanghai, I’m sure we’d be fine ...

As you probably inferred from a recent post of mine, Montreal has been on my mind a lot lately. It’s not so much that Helene and I are sick and tired of Shanghai; sure, some aspects are not as novel, ...

Picture this: two Western men are standing in a street in Shanghai. They stand in exactly the same spot, looking around. One of them is looking at the street with new eyes, being newcomer in the city. The heat, the ...