Hanoi

Where crossing the street requires commitment and dinner never really ends

Apr 14 • Faline Lin

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March 2026

Ten Days in a Tea House

Learning how little I know about tea

Mar 17 • Faline Lin

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Asking the Question Again: Why Tea?

I’ve been sitting with a simple but uncomfortable question: Why tea?

Mar 3 • Faline Lin

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February 2026

In Search of the Right Grey

On paper, proportion, and why half a centimeter changed everything.

Feb 17 • Faline Lin

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The Night We Chased a Volcano

It was too bright for cameras and too big for words.

Feb 3 • Faline Lin

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January 2026

Stone Soup is no longer a secret

Today, Stone Soup left my head and became visible.

Jan 20 • Faline Lin

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It’s not the waiting. It’s the not knowing.

Sometimes I sit here and worry about how slowly everything is moving.

Jan 13 • Faline Lin

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The Descent

ABC Episode 7: After Annapurna, before everything else

Jan 6 • Faline Lin

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December 2025

ABC. We Actually Made It.

ABC Episode 6: The fog hid the peaks. But the arrival still counted.

Dec 30, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Five More Minutes

ABC Episode 5: Nine hours up, one misleading ETA, and the room we named Greyhound Bus.

Dec 23, 2025 • Faline Lin

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Everything Gets More Basic From Here

ABC Episode 4: Cold showers, group digestion, and learning not to look too closely

Dec 16, 2025 • Faline Lin

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We Paid to Suffer at 4 A.M.

ABC Episode 3: Headlamps, hundreds of stairs, and the view that made us forget we were dying inside.

Dec 3, 2025 • Faline Lin

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