According to the decals on the taxi window: No smoking No durian (a fruit smellier than the worst/best French cheese) No drinking No dogs No sex No guns and…no small sheep??
Other Travel
From Kathmandu To Bangkok
The heat stands like a wall outside the airport, thick and unrelenting, long after the sun has gone down. After the winter cold of Kathmandu--40 degrees and no heat anywhere--I gladly sweat and melt and spend a few tropical days wearing a tank top and getting...
Flying Through
Hong Kong is always hazy. The amalgam of smog and cloud never seems to depart, at least during the times of year that I fly through. Its thickness varies, but the haze is ever-present. Today, the airports geometric walls of glass face mountains barely outlined in the...
Hong Kong: 7 in 7
After a 15-hour flight, I step into the glass and light of Hong Kong airport, spontaneously deciding to venture into the city for the first time. What can you do with 7 hours in Hong Kong? Plenty. 1. Join forty women in the park doing early morning...
Hong Kong Transit
The hills of Hong Kong are staring back at me through a haze. 80 degree heat and only a thin outline of the mountains makes remaining in the airport more attractive—I watch freighters and fishing vessels glide into harbor from a soft red fuzzy sofa. Hong Kong airport...