I guess I should include some disclosure here. I grew up in California, but I have two uncles that have lived in Las Vegas most of my life. So as a kid I went to Vegas often. Not to the point of where it was a second home — I doubt anyone can truly feel […]

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Over the weekend I wrote a piece for the travel and culture magazine Seoul about Busan. One of the things I wanted to include was an Anchang Village, a fairly remote place in the mountains. If you’ve ever been to Busan you know it’s something like a city dropped into a mountain range by the sea. Anchang Village is technically […]

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Strike up the band. Construction of Pyongyang’s Ryugyong Hotel has resumed. 
Famine? What famine? Who needs a famine when you’ve got the world’s greatest architect building the world’s greatest hotel that will surely contain the world’s greatest buffet.
Table for 2 million kind sir!
From Marmot’s Hole:
According to Yonhap News, multiple sources have confirmed that construction work has […]

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Excuse me while I completely rip into someone who’s likely going through a tough time, but I’m guessing any native English-speaker living abroad or doing international business travelling, that has had to rely on the shoddy, elitist, CNN International for any semblance of TV news in English – is familiar with this smarmy twerp:

I’ve disliked Richard Quest for […]

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I recently came across Nine Bo Jacksons, a good fantasy baseball site with one of the better names I’ve ever come across.
Apparently he’s just finishing up school, and won’t begin a teaching job until the fall. As he puts it, “What would any normal person do if they had 2 and a half months off […]

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You are lounging in a warm plunge pool in the garden of a private villa while listening to “The Goldberg Variations.” Your robe and slippers are on the floor where you dropped them, right near the giant, pillow-mounded platform bed. You are thinking about having a brie omelet for breakfast, then a spa foot massage […]

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People are under the impression that it’s impossible to go to North Korea, but even for Americans, there are ways. The New York Times has a small travel piece that includes the details on going.
The tricky part is the price.

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