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Don's cellphone selfie on 12/31/2018 — exactly a year back   Downtime, what's that?

My head still feels groggy from the extensive international flights when the travel tycoon of this country showing me this incredible views, purposefully omitted from my knowing, before dawn!  

Tongdosa  ( 통도사 , a head temple of Korean Buddhism near  Yangsan, South Gyeongsang Province, South Korea  meaning “Salvation of the World through Mastery of Truth”)  : one of three Korea's most famous places of worship 

175 elegance of classic French colonial rooms accentuates its Golden Age of architecture situating in the center of Ho Chi Minh city, overlooking the Saigon river, since 1925...  

Ha Long Bay (literally: Descending Dragon bay; Vietnamese: Vịnh Hạ Long) is a UNESCO World Heritage site located in Quảng Ninh province, Vietnam. Ha Long Bay has an area of around 1,553 km², incuding 1,960 islets, most of which are limestone

175 elegance of classic French colonial rooms accentuates its Golden Age of architecture situating in the center of Ho Chi Minh city, overlooking the Saigon river, since 1925... 

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” —  John Muir — 

This is one of my spanning-over-ten-year-long Sunday full-page columns published, for a major newspaper, a decade back! And now. Let's go digital and make it a Sunday column too, read on...

All are the cellphone pictures done in 2012 by, me, Don Schumann   This unusually stylish and versatile professional medium format camera setup — I had to put it up piece by piece from different countries, mostly from Japan headquarters due to its rarity

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves

Sorry for the shaky cellphone pictures   Eurasian meals for an Eurasian expatriate 

I had come across this impressive Hindu shrine, built between the 10th and 13th centuries, dedicated to Shiva when I set foot covering in the isolated five rural provinces for a geographic magazine in the early 2000's

This is one of my spanning-over-ten-year-long Sunday full-page columns published, for a major newspaper, a decade back! And now. Let's go digital and make it a Sunday column too, read on...

A flower unseen blooms just as beautifully and smells just as sweet

Plant something eye-pleasing flowers (for soul) and/or edible vegetables (for body) in your garden  

This is one of my spanning-over-ten-year-long Sunday full-page columns published, for a major newspaper, a decade back! And now. Let's go digital and make it a Sunday column too, read on...

Aiming to put earthy goodness into your gardening or decorating   

Boasting one of the world's largest privately-owned lagoon yet offering colonial-style rooms on landscaped grounds 

This is one of my spanning-over-ten-year-long Sunday full-page columns published, for a major newspaper, a decade back! And now. Let's go digital and make it a Sunday column too, read on...

You are flying high at this point, instead, you want to move forward, go upward and continue expanding

It is the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace

I am still finding myself navigating the obstacles and I  will unfailingly master every little (unpleasant) surprise that comes my way, as usual 

It is the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace

Weave the wisdom of your life into a tapestry of beauty and love

It is the largest of four Royal Parks that form a chain from the entrance of Kensington Palace through Kensington Gardens and Hyde Park, via Hyde Park Corner and Green Park past the main entrance to Buckingham Palace

Slowness...   

There are over three hundred species and thousands of cultivars!    

There is a theater operated by National Geographic — one of my most favorite publishers I have worked with  Hearst Castle, a National Historic Landmark in California, USA  

Muy picante! I am not a huge fan of salsa sauce in itself, but (until) it just belongs in this new set meal. And the V-Shaped French fries really turning the tables, too!   The way others see you isn't necessarily the way you are

There is a theater operated by National Geographic — one of my most favorite publishers I have worked with   Hearst Castle, a National Historic Landmark in California, USA  

There is a theater operated by National Geographic — one of my most favorite publishers I have worked with Hearst Castle, a National Historic Landmark in California, USA

Don's photo by journalist Ms. Reckha Ready to take a really deep dive?

There is a theater operated by National Geographic — one of my most favorite publishers I have worked with   Hearst Castle, a National Historic Landmark in California, USA

Eat as I go — around the globe — plus, private Butler serving by the in-suite pool right inside of the six-star presidential suite, too! The world is my smorgasbord  

Yes, there's a returning "Candle Floats" truck —  from my last project for the Geographic Magazine featuring on documentary on the unbeknownst Candle Floats Carnival of Northerneast Thailand  a couple days prior —  bumping into us and tailgating our chartered coach while we were  racing on highway  crossing the border for my back-to-back assignment in Laos! Champasak can be reached from Thailand through the Chong Mek border crossing, at Vang Tao, from where the highway leads east towards the city of Pakxe 

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Champasak can be reached from Thailand through the Chong Mek border crossing, at Vang Tao, from where the highway leads east towards the city of Pakxe 

Seaside Summer Hut, Hut, Hut!   

Champasak can be reached from Thailand through the Chong Mek border crossing, at Vang Tao, from where the highway leads east towards the city of Pakxe 

Japanese entertainer Akane Souma

The master of back-lit illumination 

The urge to plant “roots” — or pull up stakes — definitely grow increasingly stronger

The Mekong is a trans-boundary river in Southeast Asia. It is the world's twelfth longest river and the seventh longest in Asia

Do what resonates with your heart

One of the collaboration projects in the earliest "Korean Waves — Trends" building, I worked with South Korea government — KNTO, now called KTO — in the mid 1990's Overlooking Busan (spelled Pusan, that time) International Port

Smelling the roses makes the traveling fun

What is the original Taiwanese breakfast to you?

You possess the beauty yet the power to charge forward, renewed and ready to take on the world  

What can you do in the wet gloomy drizzliest (and snowy; eg. Los Angeles) month? 

Eat as I go — around the globe — plus, private Butler serving by the in-suite pool right inside of the six-star presidential suite, too! The world is my smorgasbord