The Year of the Monkey Trip Report covers the following places:
- New York, New York
- Bangkok, Thailand
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Jakarta, Indonesia
- Kota Kinabalu, Indonesia
- Guangzhou, China
- Hong Kong
- Shenzhen, China
- Sanya, China
TPOL 2.5 has officially launched. The website looks the same but my approach is different. I will be writing this trip report in real-time instead of pretending I will write one when I return. Some may say, go on vacation, enjoy yourself, forget the blog. I disagree. I think I will be able to savor more of my vacation if I take timeout to write posts on the go.
And ‘on the go’ is where I am going. Checkout the Great Circle Mapper which has me crisscrossing Asia for no particular reason for a total distance flown of 28,674 miles.
I will try to pay attention to grammar and keep the posts substantive but sometimes I observe something and I want to share a quick recap. Inevitably, that gets a ‘this post was such a waste of my time’ response. This begs the question, “Isn’t it easier to just click onto the next post than to waste your time writing a comment?”
I hope you enjoy my new way of doing things. Let’s see how it goes.
Nice! Excited for the trip and the live report!
Going to be a lot of laughter and a few tears
You’re kind of a tool
Coming from the guy who takes time to not only read the post but also write the comment.
Completely agree. Not to mention rather narcissistic tone. Completely deluded that the world hangs on every post. Honey, hate to break it to ya, but you ain’t nothin’ special! You wasted 5 mins of my life, now I’m wasting a few mins of yours. š
Took you that long to read it?
Good luck. Ignore the trolls.
Thanks and I’ll try.
In Guangzhou, Check out the miles of underground mall by the train station closest to the sheraton GZ and if the weather is decent, check out the huge public space leading up to the soccer stadium (also by the S) you can watch a hundred kids roller skating between the old ladies doing their synchronized dancing.
Lol. Great! I have no plans and have done no research.
if you want any tips for shenzhen, Guangzhou, HK or macau let me know. I’m back in the US now but i’ve spent a majority of the past 4 months split between 8 different hotels in those cities. enjoy your trip!
Awesome. I will reach out when it gets closer
Looking forward to reading these trip reports. Where are you staying in Jakarta? I’m going in end of January. I’m seriously considering hiring the police escort while there. Douchey, I know but certainly a bucket list item!
Haaa. I’ll tell you after i check out…speaking of police escorts. Got go balance real time with sketchy people
This sounds like it’s going to be a blast!
Should be a good one and i figure blogging will make it go by slower