“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…
Each country I visit, I end up assigning a broad generalization, such as: South Korea is the land of selfie…
No need for an alarm clock while rafting the Clarence: if the sound of New Zealand’s ten billion birds belting their…
Canoeing in Costa Rica, kayaking Doubtful Sound, and now rafting down the Clarence: you would think that from my vacation…