When I pulled back the curtains on our 10th floor room at the Park Hotel, I kinda knew that it was going to be a very wet day - but "you gotta do what you gotta do". The plan was to take the Star Ferry over to Central Hong Kong and grab a Hop-On/Hop-Off bus. We met the sales girl on the Kowloon side and while the weather was pretty much overcast we decided we would be give these guys a try. So for 760HK ($110US) we thought why not. Given the weather we weren't in...

Traveling as we do is not for the faint of heart. In our most recent case, it's often a grueling fourteen hours sitting on your **** in a less than sufficiently padded economy seat located midway in a metal cylinder traveling at 39,600 feet above sea level seat for fourteen hours. Given that we've traveled to Hong Kong on this trip, it's now close to two days later than when we left. Standing in the queue for boarding at YVR, I'm very convinced that I could hav...