Our first experience of Da Nang was hailing a Grab (Asian Uber). A 15-minute ride was 20,000 Dong; roughly $1. We went outside to await our driver and were swarmed by taxi drivers. One guy had a picture of Grab on his phone and tried to convince us he was our driver. Others told us…
This post is not going to be about a typical experience in Da Nang. It is highly influenced by the effects of the Coronavirus, more recently referred to as COVID-19. As such, this is observational both of traveling in this city and in these times. I’ll start with getting here: Our flight had been booked…
At the end of each leg of our trip, my wife Evalynn and I want to conduct and publish a quick debrief of our experiences and lessons learned. Here’s it for Melbourne. What was the most surprising thing about Melbourne? Eva: Nothing really surprising. Ehren: How much it’s like a US city… there was no…
Whoa… so much to catch up on since last I posted. But this post I’m gonna stick to the live music scene. It seems the more places I went, the more places I found that I didn’t have the capacity to visit, but I can give you the highlights of the 12 venues I/we visited…
It’s been a crazy couple weeks. My cousin Barry, currently living in Malaysia, came to visit. It was a week I won’t soon remember. He did get me to try some Chinese “cuisine”. How it goes: He makes fun of me for not wanting to try it, Eva says that I’ll like it and I…
