Merry Christmas! I hope you have a sensational Christmas, filled with gifts and great food, but most importantly a fantastic time together with your friends and family … I got my Christmas stocking this morning, so I’m not complaining at all! I just saw... It’s up to you New York, Neeeeew Yoooork! … It was up to New York to finish up my vacation in style and send me home depressed that it was already over. It succeeded on all counts, in no small part due to my buddy Campbell. I hadn’t seen him since... Though Ecuador had been awesome it was nice to get back to civilization again. We went straight from the airport to Hertz and picked up a 2007 KIA. It served me very well in the week I was in Miami. We drove back to Rasmus’s flat on South Beach, dumped our... I’ll be honest: Ecuador is a country I loved visiting, but I’d hate living there. Ecuador is blessed with gorgeous nature split into three different eco systems: The Amazon, the Andes Mountains and the beaches along the coast. All three are completely... The first thing you feel when you land in Miami, in winter time, is that the temperature is perfect. Rasmus met me at the airport and took me home to his excellently situated apartment on South Beach. Though traveling from San Diego isn’t exactly strenuous, I... Stepping off the plane in San Diego felt great. The temperature was comfortable, especially compared to freezing Beijing, and I had just embarked on a fantastic 5 week vacation filled to the rim with adventures and fun stuff. I’m dividing the trip up into five... 