Travel days: Thursday and Friday, Feb 28 and March 1 As most of my trips do, my travels began with an Uber ride to the Portland international Airport (PDX), which I write more about here. This was a notably wonderful ride. It was during full-on rush hour, so the Uber driver, having carefully studied the Portland back routes,… Read More »
In mid-August 2018, I started a new gig as a technical editor with a new client. One of the chief prerequisites of the job was that I be comfortable with frequent international travel. Upon accepting the gig, the first thing I needed to do was submit an expedited application for a 10-year travel visa for China, as I… Read More »
I had a second opportunity to return to South Korea a year and a half after my first visit. In some ways it’s too bad that we went to the exact same hotel, as this means all I’ve seen of Seoul is the area around this one tiny spot. But on the other hand, there’s something nice about… Read More »
I went to Seoul, South Korea, for client meetings in April, 2015, staying at a JW Marriott a few blocks from the Han river. I visited the same place again in October, 2016. The hotel was in a very rich area of town just by the Gangnam neighborhood, made famous by that pop song, and this definitely meant… Read More »