It’s been on the vacation radar for a while, partly motivated by others’ travel photos. The emerald greens and grottos of Halong Bay in the north, the hydro economy of the Mekong Delta to the south. In fact, I wouldn’t make it to either but split my time between Da Nang (the site of the…
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In Taiwan
In some ways Taiwan was the Asian experience I’ve been waiting for. For a greater metropolitan size of nearly 7 million, there’s a relief in its order and its kindness. I was approached four times in as many days, twice for conversation and twice more with offers of help. Rachel then was a Taiwanese mother…
Tokyo Mem’ries
My first and only trip came and went in 2014, maybe a year earlier. That detail matters less and less, than the memories. Tokyo is a city I’m sure I wanted to live up to the fantasy, mine built mostly on recycled images: bird’s-eye views of pedestrian rivers, billboard neon and noodle bars, punk hair…
Cottage Life
Is something of its own. Is something to try if you think you might need it. Steeped in swipes and newsfeeds, it might take visits plural to fully enter into its lull and gear down. It is an escape though, when you’ve accepted its terms, that puzzling on the coffee table and following the arc…
Cambodia
Cambodia is unforgettable for what it has and what’s been taken away. There are miles of the most vibrant pairings of earth and sky you might ever see. There are jungle licked temples that, more than any skyscraper, have the power to stun. There is horrifying education in the Killing Fields Memorial and Tuol Sleng,…
Hearts in Daejeon
The South Korean city of Daejeon, over a million and a half citizens comfortably and hopefully comfortable. Big number. With that many hearts there’s bound to be affection, for friends, for the magpie (the city bird), for tofu stew, for the streams that run north, for a sister city near you (Calgary, Brisbane & Uppsala),…
Halifax
What can I say about the hometown? It’s not really. I’m from Dartmouth, the undermentioned sibling across the harbour, the one that didn’t make the honor roll or the football team, I don’t know which. After the amalgamation in 1996, the municipalities of Halifax, Dartmouth, Bedford and Halifax County were dropped into a name-blender and…
The Two Towers
From the top you’ll see what’s in every brochure worthy of the name Busan: the world’s fifth largest container port, the country’s second largest fish market, and the layer cake of nature’s simplest ingredients of land, sea and sky. You’re in Busan Tower. Since 1973 it’s been here, guarding the southeastern tip of Korea’s Gyeongsangnam…
Peggy’s Cove
Peggy’s Cove is roughed out on the eastern arm of St. Margaret’s Bay, route 333 on your GPS. The two-lane road from Halifax winds just enough to demand your attention. Hit it mid-afternoon and weigh the odds of getting tangled behind a screaming school bus. Maple. Kayak. B&B. We do take out. They’re a few…
Shots in the Dark
Walk the Korean streets after dark and claim some night light. Cars and construction markers love a slow shutter and when every city and in-between town plugs in, it’s all pretty-gritty. The South Korean difference is that businesses might serve, pour, rack, massage or drop the mic to the 9th floor or higher. The world…
Colin Moore 