Jennifer L | Blue Wave Studio

I was traveling by train from Hualien in Taiwan in the late afternoon on my way back to Taipei in 2007. Fortunately, I was able to make a few photographs like the one below before the light out the window quickly disappeared making it pointless to try to capture anything while in a fast moving [...]

Do you remember when they met? When did we have brunch together that day when we met? Was it 2007… or maybe it was 2006? I know! Check our old email messages! There must’ve been an email about it. There we stood at the wine store, pacing back and forth poking at our iPhones trying [...]

These three amazing short films pretty much sum up why I love to travel. MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. The 3 guys took 44 days, traveling 11 countries with 18 flights, logging 38 thousand miles. They used 2 cameras and generated almost [...]

Ma, isn’t there a temple near here? I said to my mom (in Cantonese) as we were walking around District 5 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam last year. I was thinking of the temple we had visited the last time we were in Vietnam… the temple where my grandfather’s ashes had been laid to [...]

I’ve always passed by it and wondered what it was like on the inside. The exterior always kind of gave an impression that it was an oldie. So one night last year, while looking for some place to eat for dinner, I had a chance to finally try it. The brown interior did look oldish, [...]

It will be yummy and a place I suspect no one has been……..curious? That’s what the email said last August. Back in 2004, some of my friends and I used to get together randomly and spend time with each other whenever we were free. Simply spontaneous and unplanned. Hours would turn into whole day affairs. [...]

My first visit to Vietnam was with my father 11 years ago. It was his first time returning to the country since war drove him and my mother away from their own home. I was shocked at the streets of Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) because it was extremely crowded with motorbikes and cars with [...]

When I was younger and skeptical about my dad’s suggestions, he would always say to me Trust me. The year was 1999. It was the first time I had traveled internationally that I could remember (I had traveled once before, but I was too young to recall). This time, my family was on a crazy [...]