The next stop in the whirlwind post-graduation tour around Europe was Berlin for 2 days. We arrived late in the afternoon from the train and decided to spend…
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We arrived late in the afternoon to the place we had booked in the heart of Prague. It was very central in Old Town and right next to…
We set off for Las Vegas from the Minneapolis-Saint Paul international airport after our friends Jess and Lucas joined us from Wisconsin. We arrived late at night and…
A little teaser of what’s to come in a day of traveling Singapore: Chinatown Marina Sands and the Shops at Marina Sands Gardens by the Bay Cloud Forest…
It’s my last weekend in Osaka. I haven’t quite grasped that next weekend I will be in Hong Kong, and the weekend after that I will be home.…
After my internship in Japan, I decided to spend 5 days traveling around Hong Kong and Singapore. I would have liked to travel all of Asia, but had…
It’s my last weekend in Osaka. I haven’t quite grasped that next weekend I will be in Hong Kong, and the weekend after that I will be home.…
One of my coworkers yesterday asked me “what will you miss from Japan?” I gave a completely blank stare. Even though I have less than two weeks left…
Can you guess what I did this weekend in Kyoto? If you haven’t already pieced it together from the title, I got to finally try a kimono!! I…
This was my most spontaneous trip during my time in Japan. I had originally planned to celebrate the week of my birthday by going to Wakayama Adventure world…
I began my last day trip to Kyoto back in Arashiyama Bamboo Park. We arrived at 8 in the morning, before the tour crowds came, specifically so we…
This might be the hardest blog to write of them all. I have tried to deny to myself that I am leaving Japan, but with my final presentation…
900 meters high, two and a half hours from Osaka, 2 trains a bus and a cable car away resides Mount Koya (in Japanese it is called Koya-san…
I’ve waited a while to write this because every time I think I’m over culture shock, something strange happens and it hits me all over again. My first…
The first week of May in Japan is called Golden Week (surprisingly even in Japanese it is called Golden Week). Golden Week is a compilation of national holidays…
I decided on this blog title after trying to explain who the Kardashians are to my coworkers last week. I do not watch “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”…