Hong Kong Layover Birding
After a fun trip to California and a nice (albeit mostly birdless) Christmas with my parents and sister in Oregon, the remainder of my 2019 and the first part of 2020 was spent in Asia. Traveling from Washington DC to California to Oregon to the Philippines to Malaysia to the Philippines and back to DC seemed like a bit of a stretch for just my holiday break, but now sitting in quarantine with the prospects of any kind of travel in the near future growing ever dimmer, it's a decision I'm very glad I made. If nothing else it gives me things to reminisce on while trying to make the most of quarantine in Michigan. Of course, as the title suggests I had stops along the way- the cheapest flight to the Philippines conveniently happened to include a 10-hour morning layover in Hong Kong. HK is one of my favorite cities in the world, and it's still a great place to visit despite the best intentions of some particular authoritarian world leaders. I didn't have m...