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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Despite my wanderlust tendencies, I do not have a carry-on suitcase of my own. I used to have a 26″ suitcase until I lost a wheel. Poof! It was gone somewhere between the walk from the Airport Bus stop along Nathan Road in Hong Kong and my cousin’s place.  And the ground started shaving off [...]

While in Hong Kong, we had booked a tour to the Guangdong Province with a final destination in Shunde for the weekend.  It was perfect timing because we had planned to visit family there afterwards, except that on the morning of our planned departure, a typhoon bound for Hong Kong shut down all transportation by [...]

I flew to Hong Kong on the Cathay Pacific flight I booked several months earlier on a 747-400 with new seats that were introduced last month, which included individual entertainment screens (no charge) that had plenty of options to keep you preoccupied including video games and seats that reclined in its own shell, plus a [...]

Ever since I knew I was going to the Beijing Olympics this August, I have been researching travel options. I had no idea it was going to be such an ordeal for 5.5 months looking into options like side trips and land tours and then deciding against them. In the end, I got a sweet [...]