From One Quarantine to Another to Another… + Carefree Travel Days Pre-COVID-19

A few days ago Manchit and I went to JFK International Airport so she could take her flight back to China. She queued beside travelers dressed in full Hazmat suits (lab-ready goggles down to their slip-resistant shoe booties), or in hodgepodges of plastic-wear (rain jackets, ponchos, pant protectors) Frankenstein-crafted together; or wearing whatever construction-site dust…

Happy Chinese New Virus New Year + Yunnan Snow-Capped Memories

No more theaters. No more KTV karaoke. (Almost) no faces on Guangzhou’s streets that are bare without face masks. Welcome to the new World Virus Order, courtesy of the kind of unsanitary health practices your mother has been warning you about for the past thirty years. We’re about 1500 kilometers (that’s about 932 miles/Freedom Units)…