After two and a half years without traveling outside Singapore due to COVID-19, the family and I took a trip back to the US in June to visit family and friends — and visit some distilleries! In all the time we’ve lived in Singapore, I’ve never really been homesick but after such a long time without being able to visit (or travel anywhere at all) I have to admit that it was tougher than I expected to get on the plane back home to Singapore. The distillery road trip portion of the visit took me almost three thousand miles through the southeast, and I’m excited to begin sharing details about the trip and what I saw (and tasted).
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Rum Travels: 2022 New York Rum Festival and Congress
I missed out on the Miami Rum Congress earlier this year. I’m feeling a little less bitter about it now, but I still wish I’d been able to attend. Fortunately, the New York Rum Festival and Congress date coincided with my trip back to the US in June, and I was able to make a weekend jaunt to New York to attend.
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