Our home is more chaotic than usual. Over 50% of it is gutted and either under construction or being used for storage. We’re currently working on moving our

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

Photos from Friday at Dragon Con. As usual tons of great costumes. Our schedule for the day included a World of Warcraft panel, a Star Wars puppet show,

Technically Dragon Con doesn’t begin until Friday but so many fans gather and arrange meet and greets and concerts that Thursday has become the unofficial start date of

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

08-22-2015, Osaka to Akihabara Karl and I woke up early enough to walk to Dotonbori and look around before checking out of our hotel. Dotonbori is a shopping

August 21st, 2015 | Naoshima, Japan         Japanese Breakfast at Tsujutsu Cafe       Some pictures of pretty things taken while waiting on the

Today we’re traveling from Okayama to Uno by train where we’ll take a ferry to the island of Naoshima (now-shi-ma). Taiki is planning to be our tour guide