Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
While working on this year’s 2026 vacation itineraries with the aid of GenAI tools, something struck me: what if I used these tools to do analyses of past trips? Specifically, with an eye towards understanding my overall travel behaviors, my
A major change in this year’s itinerary planning is that I used GenAI tools – and a lot of it! I used it somewhat sparingly when planning for the 2025 itineraries, but this year was a major step-up in the
Like last year but quite unlike the years before that, I started planning our two holidays for 2026 pretty early. The daughter starting a new course of studies and vacation period though was a new constraint, since she no longer
It’s the final post of this 2025 year, and again an accounting of all the toys and gadgets I’ve picked up this year – the purchases that turned out fantastic, the misses, and everything else that fell between! I picked
This 21 day family vacation to Yunnan and Western Sichuan has been the longest we’ve had. We initially thought we’d be able to handle that long a stretch without breaking a sweat. As it turned out, by the time we’d
This is the first of two last posts on our trip, and jotting down my notes for how each equipment item that came for the trip fared. I’m comparing this trip to the one in Chubu-Kanto Japan last December and
Every trip we take out of the country, the wife will be especially interested in taking pictures of flora of all kinds! Here’s a selection taken by her this trip.
Continued from the last post that covered Days 01 to 09; Part 2 here covers Days 10 to 21! Day 10 (Daocheng to Litang) Daocheng Yading Geological Park (~1 hr) [blog post here]: we’d initially planned to visit Yading Nature
While this was the longest vacation we’ve taken as a family – 21 days, compared to the 18 days we spent in South Korea last year – the number of distinct places we visited this trip was actually fewer. This
We’d completely neglected earlier on in our itinerary planning check which of the two international airports we’d be departing Chengdu from. There are two airports: Shuangli, which is located near to the city center, and Tianfu, which is much further
We stayed four nights at the Citadines South Chengdu, a service apartment block that’s south of city center and about 30 minutes by car. Our comments! The block is 24 floors, with our apartment located on the 22nd floor. The
Our initial already sedate plan for Day 20 was to return to Chengdu city center and visit Kuanzhai Alley, A historic district featuring renovated Qing Dynasty-era buildings. Howeever, one look at the weather outside mid-morning today made us think again:
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