Around the world in six weeks

Since entering Hong Kong in 2021 for my job, I didn’t make much progress in Fog of World. My daily life is mainly a straight line between work <-> home with a few hiking. I just went “moldy” by getting stuck here for so long (maybe also the crazy humidity here). My original plan was to have a long vacation and go back to mainland China early this year, but then there were giant covid waves in both Hong Kong and Shanghai. So the plan couldn’t work at all. Instead, the requirement for inbound travel to Hong Kong lowered, addition with my manager’s encouragement, project needs as well as wanting to meet a lot of coworkers, I decided to go for a business trip that includes 3 weeks in New York and 2 weeks in London[1].

Back to the title, it is actually quite hard to define “Around the world” accurately if we really think about it. Purely based on distance is surely wrong. Following the equator is way too harsh. Completing a circle on the map (with mercator projection) can be achieved easily with polar routes, feels like cheating. However, I do feel that the one I did is pretty good. Because not all flights are recovered due to the pandemic, my route is: HKG -> SFO -> JFK -> LHR -> DOH -> HKG (And I almost add an extra stop at Singapore). track

Technically, this was a business trip, and the work-related stuff didn’t go smoothly and I didn’t take any extra days off. But in general, I had enough fun and crossed out multiple things from my list. I’m not really a person who likes to record life by writing, so I’ll just let some photos do the job.

Manhattan + 🌈