Overnight, it rained a very serious sort of Japanese rain, leaving the laundry on the balcony we thought we were…
My brain has taken a few days to reboot properly into Japanese mode. After two full days, it at least felt like…
For an excellent lesson in life’s futilities, look no further than the groundskeepers of each of Kyoto’s shrines, temples, and parks…
“Let’s not climb a mountain today,” we vowed as we set off on our journey this morning. We were both…
Entirely on a whim on the train to Kyoto, we decided to go to Fushimi Inari-Taisha after arrival. This also…
The trip from Chicago to Tokyo is just around 12.5 hours. The flight goes north through Canada, west along the southern…
Superpowers: invisibility, telepathy, super speed, bubble tea shop sense. I have none of these. Instead, I have an uncanny knack…
I always turn eagerly to the holidays section of my guidebooks to see if my trips coincide with major holidays…
Since half of my travel posts are also about how I am sick, of course my cold was still present Monday…
If my iPhone’s pedometer is to be believed, I walked eleven miles on my first day in London. Eleven! That’s nearly the…