The first week of June My girlfriend, Pearl, and I took a trip to Las Vegas and San Francisco, the main reason of the trip was actually a business trip, I was to take my CFPS (Certified Fire Protection Specialist) exam during the NFPA convention in Las Vegas. My parents also met us in Vegas so it turned out to be a very nice trip. Vegas, this was the first time that Pearl has ever been to Las Vegas, also a first for her to gamble, it was my first time to Vegas since I was a very young boy, landed [View Full Entry]

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The title is taken from my favorite composer "Antonio Vivaldi", in case you were wondering. I thought I might just share some seasonal photos with ya'll, hope you enjoy. [View Full Entry]

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Yet another work trip, but this time I took some pictures. This was my second trip to India for work, this time in Mumbai and New Delhi. I actually planed it so I would have two free days to sight see....but it did not work out that way, since my trip to India arrived at 3:00 am I kinda slept in, I then had to go to the Domestic Airport to pay for my ticket to New Delhi, I could not book on line or on the phone because my Korea Air Visa card was not an "International" credit card, which [View Full Entry]

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Well a lot has happened since my last blog and wanted to get ya’ll caught up. Back in January I went to India for another Marriott trip; it all started on Monday night 13 January when I got a call from my boss saying I need to be in India on the 14th. The office booked my flight from Seoul to Mumbai (Bombay), I had to book round-trip flights from Mumbai to Hyderabad and Mumbai to Goa. Let me just say that the flight to Mumbai was an ass whip the only saving grace was that I flew business class, I [View Full Entry]

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Another Work Trip This is a two part trip blog with mostly night pictures, due to my work schedule. The first trip I took was to Taipei, Taiwan at the end of November. The trip to Taipei was an organizational trip, we have tons of Marriott work for the upcoming year and we just needed to get all of the projects organized, we also started looking for an office in Taipei. The trip was short, only two days, and unfortunately we were hit with a late season Typhoon, so getting out during the day was impossible, we did drive by Taipei [View Full Entry]

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Merry Christmas and Happy New Year Just a short note to tell everybody who has read and followed my travel adventures, I wish you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I also want to thank you all for you comments and support. Christmas Eve I picked up Pearl at 오산 역 (Osan Train Station) we then went to Chili’s for dinner. Christmas was a lazy, relaxing day, that night we drove to Suwon to see the 화성 Hwasong Fortress. The day after Christmas we went snowboarding. Looks like 2008 will be another year of work related travel, [View Full Entry]

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I want to start this blog off with an apology, I’m sorry for this blog not having more detail on the places we saw, but I left my journal at home in Korea, so this is coming from my vague, old-age memory. There are quite a few pictures so I hope you enjoy those. This trip was taken on a long weekend with a co-worker and his wife and Pearl and I. Pearl was the only one that has been to Cambodia so she suggested we go to Angkor Wat, which is what we did. And it was an excellent choice. [View Full Entry]

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This will be a long entry, so please bear with me, as this blog will cover our, Pearl and I, vacation to the US. Since this was Pearl’s first visit to the States I wanted to show her as much as we could fit in our two week schedule, but in hindsight I think it was to hectic the first week. The trip got off to a rocky start when we were going through customs I forgot that I packed some liquids/gels in one of our carry on bags, so we had 2 bottles of SoJu, a Korean type of Gin, [View Full Entry]

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Earlier in the week I was told that I needed to be at Shanghai 16 July for an inspection on a new Marriot hotel, so we cancelled our plans to go to the "Mud Festival" 13 July through 15 July, and we started making planes to go to Shanghai for four days. Once all our flight and hotel reservations were made we were ready to go, as a true Friday 13th would have it, I checked my email and saw one about my trip, seems like the owners were not ready and cancelled the trip. Well after we cancelled all our [View Full Entry]

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Well it is the monsoon season here so when you have a nice weekend you have to make the best of it, and that is just what we did. Saturday morning started off with a little house work and cleaning around the apartment, and Pearl helping me with my Korean. Later in the day we had our downstairs neighbors up for a cocktail, introduced them the the greatness of the "Mai Tai", after our drink we all went across the street to Eunpa park for a cook out. Pearl and I made sandwiches, strips of chicken breast marinated in a [View Full Entry]

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