Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
We’d skipped breakfast this morning, so the kids were getting pretty hungry by mid-morning, and the boy asked for McDonald’s – just to continue that family tradition of always eating at McDonald’s once on every vacation we take haha. Mr.
We were so dog-gone tired from Day 01 yesterday – what with the red-eye flight, then a full day of sightseeing covering 8 different places – that our guide and driver, Mr. Lee, suggested we have a slightly later start
We had a large number of spots to check out on this Day 01, though they were all fairly close to each other. Leaving Cheonjiyeon Waterfall, we next headed to Seogwipo Chilsimni area for a quick look. The coastal walk
It was past 11:15AM today when we left Iho Tewoo Beach, and we were getting pretty hungry – no meals on the budget flight we came in on. So, Mr. Lee drove us to a spot known as Jeju Dang
This 9-day Jeju trip has been the first one where I relied on GenAI tools a fair bit to produce various iterations of the itinerary that took onboard the kind of sightseeing we wanted to do, our preferences, and a
We’d be travelling on our Jeju trip soon. The planning for this itinerary has been pretty different from the others I’ve done over the years. Aside from my use of GenAI tools to check, analyse and screen the itinerary for
With our Jeju – June 2026 itinerary pretty much done except for more rounds of checking and tweaking, we’d been also thinking about where to go for our year end. This time though, there are a few likely big changes
The last couple of days saw quite a bit more intensive planning for our Jeju itinerary, and that in turn led to a number of changes. Some of the key changes and updates included: Rechecked and optimised our routes for
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
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 returned
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