Tag Archives: Asia

A car lovers dream If you have any appreciation for cars you would love going to Hong Kong.  When you first import a car into Hong Kong you have to pay a “first registration tax” of 40% of the cars value up to 150K.  Above 150K it jumps to 75%+.   …

Anyone who knows Ashley knows that she absolutely LOVES Halloween.   For Halloween we didn’t have costumes due to our limited budget and her husbands lack of enthusiasm for playing dress up, but we did want to get out and do something for Halloween none the less.   We decided to check …

After being in Hong Kong for a few days it was very apparent that Hong Kong was completely different than China.   Each day we would venture out and check out the area and we always enjoyed it.   Being in Hong Kong felt like being in an Asian version of New …

After our first few days relaxing in Hong Kong and getting readjusted to normal life, Ashley and I were ready to venture out.  I had wanted to visit Macau and possibly get some poker in while we were there.  Macau is the Las Vegas of Asia.  There are tons of …

Our next stop after China was Hong Kong and we were both ready for a change of pace.  The group of Apple employees in Shanghai told us that Hong Kong was “very different” from China.   We didn’t know exactly what that meant but different had to be a good thing. …

I need to preface this rant.   When we got to China we were approximately 45 days into our trip.  I think a bit of trip fatigue was setting in and we were still adjusting to life on the road.  In addition, China on the whole simply has A LOT …

We had been in Shanghai for 4 or 5 days and had a few more left before moving onto Hong Kong.  We decided to get out of the hostel and head over to a market area.  It took a few stops on the subway but we made our way there …

We arrived early in the morning from Xi’an on the overnight train.   We needed to hop on the subway from the train station to make our way to the hostel.  All throughout China we found the subway system extremely easy to navigate.  We made our way to the correct stop …

Ashley and I both wanted to get out of the standard China destinations (Beijing/Shanghai) but we didn’t know where to go.  After some research Ashley found Xi’an China where you can go see the Terracotta Warriors.  It seemed like a good fit because we could take an overnight train there, …

The 798 Art Zone We had hit most of the highlights in Beijing and we wanted to find something a little different.  Ashely found an art district to check out so we decided to head that way.  We weren’t really sure what we were getting into because we’re not really …