Category: Traveling

The second museum we checked out on Tuesday 24 March was the California Academy of Sciences. This was a really slick and modern museum; they’d apparently moved into their home at the Golden Gate Park just last year, and that

There aren’t many school going children in Singapore who haven’t gone to the Singapore Science Center at least once, and most likely twice during their primary and junior years of education. Two such science museums in San Francisco are the

I had my one and only free morning on the second day of my San Francisco trip. There was one ‘tourisy’ attraction I’d been wanting to visit – The Aquarium of the Bay. I’d advised my students that the place

One of the more special places in San Francisco is the Cartoon Art Museum located at Mission Street. This museum was one of the places on the official itinerary, so after I met up with my group of students on

The six of us – five students in my entourage and myself – arrived in San Francisco at 8:30 am this Sunday morning. The flight from Singapore to Narita was very smooth, but from Narita to SF bumpier, with the

I’m just about to head off to the airport for the 6 am flight to San Francisco. The flight is 17 hours with an additional 2 hour stopover at Narita airport. Weather is a cold 4 to 20 degree celsius

Whereas I’m ecstatic you’re visiting my country, buddy, I’m finding your current preparations alarmingly inefficient.  It really sucks I won’t be around to show you the ins and outs of American lifestyle, but let’s go over some things you’ll need

Many of us when we’re abroad for a vacation would enroll in a tour package and let someone else handle all the arrangements pertaining to places, transportation, accommodation and the like. There’s indeed an argument for leaving planning to the