Taos with my spouse! After a beautiful drive from Santa Fe, we arrived at our home for the week, an airbnb not far from town. Our first dinner was wonderful, at The Love Apple. We got to visit Taos Pueblo, which is the oldest continuously inhabited community in the US. We were given a lovely…
There are two main routes connecting Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico: The Low Road and the High Road, each named for its respective elevation. The Low Road follows the Rio Grande, while the High Road weaves through the mountains. If you’re making a round trip between the two cities, almost everyone recommended driving the…
Unless you’re an avid skiier or from the state, you probably don’t think of New Mexico as an attraction for winter sports. But it is! Located at the southern end of the American Rockies, Santa Fe is almost 2000 feet higher in elevation than Denver. This February, we decided to visit New Mexico for a…
We seem to have reached a golden age of Taiwanese American cookbooks in the last few years. I can remember learning to cook in the first few years after graduating from college and not having many places to turn when trying to conjure many of the dishes from my childhood. I tried to ask my…
Behold! The start of a whole new year! I set a goal for the entire year, which is a minimum of 15 minutes of movement every day. So we started it off with a January 1st run! Followed up by tacos in the Mission, as inspired by our return from Mexico City just the day…
Alex and I usually go up to Tahoe at least once or twice a year. This January, we went up for a long weekend so Alex could go snowboarding, while I lived my lodge life, staying at our Airbnb and working on my wooden mahjong set that I’ve been carving! See a summary of our…
December recap! What a month. We were somehow traveling half the time and yet still had such an abundance of wonderful adventures with our friends here at home. Jumping right in, here’s our flight home from our honeymoon to Portugal and the Canary Islands, passing through NYC. Library date with Cassie, visiting the brand new…
So much to see and do in Mexico City! We’re continuing on with part two of our holiday trip to CDMX. Jumping right in with a walk around the neighborhoods of Condesa and Roma Norte. There’s apparently a small Japantown of sorts budding in Mexico City. We happened upon a Japanese grocery store, where we…
Mexico City is home to 22 million people and has also become quite the draw for tourists, food-lovers, and digital nomads. I had never visited, but Alex has been to Mexico City several times. We had grand plans of going together back in 2020, but of course that never happened– until now! We arrived in…
It’s the final leg of our honeymoon! Since it was November, we wanted to get a bit closer to the Equator in hopes of finding warmer weather. So we chose Gran Canaria to round out the vacation after Portugal. Gran Canaria is the second most populated Canary Island and thus part of Spain, although it’s…
As the capital and largest city, Lisbon is generally lauded as the must-visit city of Portugal. But rather unexpectedly, we actually enjoyed Porto more. Of course this was very skewed for various reasons, not least of which is Alex got food poisoning and was sidelined for two days. Plus, we arrived in Lisbon on a…
The Douro Valley is one of the most beautiful wine regions in the world. We visit our California wine country (Napa, Sonoma) all the time, but we were told that it would be well worth the time and effort to take a day and drive from Porto to the Douro Valley, and that was absolutely…