Category: Travel

Our First Cruise, Day 4: St. Thomas We were super excited about our first port day, especially me. I’ve been wanting to visit St. Thomas for 17 years — ever

Our First Cruise, Day 3: At Sea Breakfast at Windjammer. Nap. Lunch. Our time on the ship seems to be a cycle of: sleep, eat, sleep, eat, eat,

We were scheduled to visit CocoCay (Bahamas) today but the captain announced over the intercom that the waves were too rough for us visit the island since it

Karl and I are super excited and nervous to be going on our first cruise. We only have a vague idea of what to expect. Hopefully we’ve packed

Half Dragon, Day One: Karl and I decided to join in on the annual Half Dragon fun this weekend to celebrate the halfway point to DragonCon with other

Shirakawa-go, Gifu Prefecture, Japan Shirakawa-go is a beautiful mountain village famous for its traditional gassho-zukuri farmhouses. Gassho-zukuri means “constructed like hands in prayer”, and refers to the steep thatched

I purchased a deck of Japanese Flower Cards while in Japan since I like games and it was both interesting and inexpensive. The cards look really neat but a bit

Karl and I left Japan about 36 hours ago, and have been home for about 12. Being home feels great but it also makes our trip feel that

Our last full day in Tokyo was our shopping day. We spent the morning packing up so we could assess how much space we had left for souvenirs

There are two Disney parks in Japan: Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. Tokyo Disneyland is very similar to Disneyland in California and The Magic Kingdom in Florida, but DisneySea