Follow Your Hart

Congratulations! Just a few years or even as recently as a few months ago, you were a solo backpacker with a simple camera, a laptop and a dream. One day, you decided to start writing a blog for a friends and family to follow your travels on; suddenly, that blog was shared with others and [...]

Wacky World Wednesday is a routine installment on my website where I explore the weird world we live in. Most of my posts have been about Japan though. Wonder why?     I’ll preface this post by saying bluntly, I am not a listener of K-Pop (Korean pop music) or J-pop (Japanese pop music). I [...]

  A recent article I read on BBC Travel had me thinking. Later this Summer or at the beginning of Autumn, if all goes well with my earned holiday time (I’m suppose to be awarded 30 days of free holiday for staying in Japan an additional year), I’ll be on my way to a new [...]

Currently out to sea off the coast of Japan. I’m trying something a little different here with this post. Through the emails I receive from Navy recruits and people interested in the military, I understand that my website appears when people search different topics related to the U.S. Navy. Thus, I’d like to give a [...]

  The luxury and comfort at the Z Through By the Zign luxury hotel is understated on their website. The instant I entered the resort lobby, I was impressed with the warmth from the decor and the furniture that complimented the ambient light coming through. Light could be the theme of the resort. The rooms [...]

Current location: Somewhere in the Java Sea     The obvious choice for the Picture of the Week- perhaps Picture of a Lifetime- is the one you see above. About an hour before I took the photograph, I was standing on the main deck of the ship. The water was calm as a swimming pool [...]

  On my first visit to Siem Reap a year ago, I was on a budget. A tight budget to be honest. The visit to home of Angkor Historical Park was in-between a four-day stay in Hanoi and three days in Phuket, Thailand. With these being my first solo adventures across SE Asia, I was [...]

I am currently in: Jakarta, Indonesia If there really is a place called Hell and another called Heaven, and if getting to Heaven means I have to give up the things that could get me in Hell… well… I hope melanin and dark skin work in the afterlife. When I travel, my morals still travel [...]