In contrast to the two luxury hotels I’ve been in, here’s my simple room for tonight. It’s a matter of location, location. Just up the hill from the teeming Mong Kok district, where I went today with Trevor and his friend. To tell the truth, I’m happier in a simple room like this. Feels better. Can open the windows. This is my last night. I’ve got a ton of photos and experiences, maybe I can get some posts done when I’m waiting for my (1AM) flight tomorrow night. It’s 9 and am heading out to eat and be dazzled by sights, sounds, smells, and people. Going to try out my new 1.7 f-stop Panasonic Lumix (G1) lens; everything so far shot with Canon Powershot S95 pocket camera. Is this an exciting city!
About Lloyd Kahn
Lloyd Kahn started building his own home in the early '60s and went on to publish books showing homeowners how they could build their own homes with their own hands. He got his start in publishing by working as the shelter editor of the
Whole Earth Catalog with Stewart Brand in the late '60s. He has since authored six highly-graphic books on homemade building, all of which are interrelated. The books, "The Shelter Library Of Building Books," include
Shelter,
Shelter II (1978),
Home Work (2004),
Builders of the Pacific Coast (2008),
Tiny Homes (2012), and
Tiny Homes on the Move (2014). Lloyd operates from Northern California studio built of recycled lumber, set in the midst of a vegetable garden, and hooked into the world via five Mac computers. You can check out videos (one with over 450,000 views) on Lloyd by doing a search on YouTube:
In contrast to the two luxury hotels I’ve been in, here’s my simple room for tonight. It’s a matter of location, location. Just up the hill from the teeming Mong Kok district, where I went today with Trevor and his friend. To tell the truth, I’m happier in a simple room like this. Feels better. Can open the windows. This is my last night. I’ve got a ton of photos and experiences, maybe I can get some posts done when I’m waiting for my (1AM) flight tomorrow night. It’s 9 and am heading out to eat and be dazzled by sights, sounds, smells, and people. Going to try out my new 1.7 f-stop Panasonic Lumix (G1) lens; everything so far shot with Canon Powershot S95 pocket camera. Is this an exciting city!
"Tiny room" … it could be your next book, Lloyd. Tiny Rooms!
I would love to go to that place and stay at the nicest accommodation in town.
Pousada Ubatuba
The BBC has a story about tiny rooms today:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/blog/20111107-worldwide-weird-tuck-in-at-tiny-hotels