Category Archives: Travel

Kunming: Not as Pretty

Posted on 23 March 2008 by andyq

I’ve been lucky not to travel all year. The flurry of work trips at the end of 2007 were too much for me – I was sick many times, exhausted, and unsettled. So, being in one place has been great … Continue reading →

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Being Kind to Delhi

Posted on 29 October 2007 by andyq

Our impressions of a place are circumstantial. Even if one visits a site many times or ends up living there, it is a unique perspective based on opportunity and chance, and how one sees the world. After almost 9 years … Continue reading →

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Dreams that are out of date

Posted on 28 July 2007 by andyq

I wake. The sheets are perfectly white. The mattress is hard. The air conditioning is on and noisy – but the room is a comfortable temperature. Hot sunlight creeps through the closed blinds, as does sounds of construction. I’m in … Continue reading →

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How I love and hate travelling

Posted on 24 September 2005 by andyq

18 August Friday 11:30 am, Toronto Time / 25 September 8am, Kunming Time I started this particular post over a month ago as I was heading to Toronto from Chicago. It was a particularly hard trip. North American routes of … Continue reading →

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Waking and not quite knowing where

Posted on 7 September 2005 by andyq

7 Sept 05, San Francisco I open my eyes. Brooklyn? Toronto (on the Bloor line, far enough east or west for the buildings to thin out)? No. Oakland. The BART to San Francisco. Some surprise how many seconds it took … Continue reading →

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