Month: July 2010

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Hong Kong

The L&T’s Big Adventure Season 2: Asia

And we’re off again!  Today, we’re flying to Hong Kong to begin the second – and longest leg – of our adventure, through Asia.

Here are a couple of pics that we secretly snapped (shh!) upon takeoff from LAX – Cathay Pacific installed a frontal view camera below the plane behind the wheel well.  Neato.

For those of you who are cruising by our travel blog for the first time, welcome!   You can catch up on our whereabouts by diving in and out of some of what we’ve done to date – here are some bookmarks in chronological order :

Now that you’re caught up, here’s what we are planning for the next couple of months.  After Hong Kong, we’ll be exploring Malaysia from the east to the west, starting in Kota Kinabalu on the island of Borneo, then south to north on peninsular Malaysia crossing over in to Thailand.

Most of these travels will be new to us and very different from what we’ve seen so far.  We’ll be relying mostly on English and a bit of Mandarin. It will be hot and humid with loads of mosquitoes, BUT, there will be beautiful beaches and delicious (and odd) food.

Anyway, we welcome you to follow along, send us a note from time to time, or look us up on Skype (tony_d_chen or leastpond).  We’d love to hear what’s going on with you!

Stay tuned to hear about our time in Hong Kong!

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U.S.

San Diego in July

Del Mar July 4th Fireworks

Total Miles Traveled: 21,655

After a few weeks in Houston, we visited Ommy and Dudley, Lisa’s parents, in Encinitas, north of San Diego, just in time for several birthdays – Ommy and Dudley both have July birthdays and then of course, there was July 4th. Here’s Ommy with her birthday cake!

Ommy's Birthday

We went to the Del Mar Fair to see the fireworks (above) where I got a chance to use my new camera remote control.  It lets you capture interesting images (some call it painting with light) – the one below is a bungee ride, where a pod goes up and down between the two poles and rotates.  You can’t see the pod here, only the lights on the pod itself at various times in the ride.

Del Mar July 4th Fireworks

We also celebrated with Kim, Kraig and their kids, where we tried out the Argentine empanadas recipe we learned in Buenos Aires.  Here’s the filling… mmmm…

Making Argentine Empanadas

Here are the kids rolling out the dough:

Making Argentine Empanadas

And after they wrapped up the filling, here’s the final product.  They actually tasted pretty good despite removing a lot of fat from the recipe.  Makes us kind of wonder how bad the empanadas we had in Argentina were.  heh heh.

Making Argentine Empanadas

And the trip to San Diego would not be complete without the requisite puppy photos.  Mambo’s tearing up a sing-a-long birthday card for Ommy – one of his favorite activities.

Ommy's Birthday

And here’s Cha Cha posing for a pic

Cha Cha