About Nik Daum’s Blog
Photo of the author on a camel in Osiyan, India, 2008. Can you guess which man is the author?
I’m Nik Daum, and this is my blog. I know blogs aren’t cool anymore, but neither am I. The content here goes back to 2005 when I took my first trip to Thailand and Cambodia. It was there that I got into a blogging habit. Since then, there have been some domestic years in the United States before another interesting extended trip to Asia in 2008 involving Thailand, India, and China.
This isn’t quite a travel diary or a sitting around being narcissistic diary. It’s more to help me remember how little I do and how pointless my life is, share my mundane experiences with others, and improve my writing, photography, and promote my drawings.
For most of 2009, I was living in Shanghai, China. Most of the posts are about that megalopolis, though I was lucky enough to go on some short side trips to Seoul, Taipei, and London.
This year, I moved back to San Francisco. Not as exciting as China, but still a beautiful city to walk around and document.
I love getting non-spam comments. Feel free to leave some.
Many moons ago, I used Blogger. Since 2008, my blog has been using a custom theme I designed for WordPress. Until March 2008, all the photos were taken with a crappy Canon point and shoot. Since then, most pictures have been taken with a Nikon D40 SLR. Then in April of 2011, I upgraded cameras again to a Canon 5DmkII. I use Photoshop for saving photos and the excellent Coda web editor from Panic for hand coding and FTP.
There are a lot of posts on my blog, many of them of less than excellent quality. I do have a few favorite posts though, either because of the impression the place made or the “quality” of the photos. Here are 6 of them:
Nik
Hi Nik,
I’m doing preliminary research for our upcoming tour from Shanghai to Chengdu, then south to Yunnan Province and into Laos, Cambodia and Viet Nam. I’ll look forward to anything you post that is bike and Shangha related.
Best,
Claire