Tag Archives: Travel

Decapitation!

Posted on June 7, 2025 by Will Moss

Doing comms when a leader is ousted. Also, travel fun! I just got home from a trip that took me around the world, from San Francisco to Amsterdam, from Amsterdam to Taiwan, and then back home. I arrived in Amsterdam … Continue reading →

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Hard Right at the Airplane Mart

Posted on November 27, 2024 by Will Moss

An unexpected lecture on the politics of European immigration I went to Amsterdam for two days last week. This was a classic of hallucinatory, placeless business travel, more time on planes than in country, mostly a prisoner of the Airport … Continue reading →

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The Overnight Hsinchu Express

Posted on October 26, 2024 by Will Moss

I asked for it, and I got it. I’ve been on the road, which is why it’s been a minute since the last post. About a week ago I flew from San Francisco to Taipei. It turns out that all … Continue reading →

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I suck at Christmas trees

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Will Moss

So I’m back in the US of A for Christmas and based on a sample size of two (my parents), I can report that the political mood here is bleak. My mom’s dog of many years died a week or … Continue reading →

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Seoul and the fermented stingray of perdition

Posted on November 20, 2010 by Will Moss

I’ll say this for Korea: Recently I’ve had reason to evaluate, and at a national level they have by far the nicest, softest bathroom paper towels I have encountered. Fluffy, soft and absorbent, neither the splinter-bearing roughage nor the instantly-disintegrating … Continue reading →

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Imagethief and the lost apartment of Qin Shihuang

Posted on June 28, 2010 by Will Moss

Recently Imagethief and family went to Xi’an for a weekend. As everyone does, we went to see the terracotta warriors. That was fine, but the real highlight of the trip was the apartment we stayed in, which was decorated top-to-bottom … Continue reading →

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Down the rabbit hole in Kansai

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Will Moss

So here’s how it goes. Someone inconveniently dies on your airplane just as it is about to take off. You experience an odd mix of feelings. On the one hand, you sympathize with the family and feel bad for their … Continue reading →

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Diving with the whale shark at Dalian’s Tiger Beach

Posted on November 24, 2009 by Will Moss

Dive nerds: This weekend I went with Steven Schwankert of Sinoscuba to dive in the whaleshark tank at Dalian’s Tiger Beach Marine Park. Here’s a little video of the weekend’s fun. It was shot on an iPhone (I didn’t really … Continue reading →

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Imagethief and the top-secret dam of Panjiakou: A Great Wall diving adventure

Posted on August 10, 2008 by Will Moss

Regular readers will recall that Imagethief recently accompanied Steven Schwankert ofSinoscuba to dive a section of the Great Wall that lies underwater in a reservoir at Panjiakou, near Tangshan. A prior blog post about that trip is here. We had … Continue reading →

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Further adventures in glamorous international travel

Posted on November 13, 2007 by Will Moss

Having arrived in Macau, the romance continues. First was immigration, where the lines crawled as officers stamped arriving passengers in with the indifferent sloth that seemed circa Vietnam, 1996. My immigration officer painstakingly inspected every stamp in my generously stamped … Continue reading →

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