I’m back. Summer sure went fast. It’s cold here these days, carrying my luggage through Tokyo was the last time I’ve sweated in a week (only a week ago?).
The family vacation was good, my mom fell in love with Japan and my brother didn’t exactly (he’s a big old travel wuss, shared youth hostel bedrooms […]
I pack my life in stages; final conference and the suit goes in the suitcase, final classes, in go the work clothes. Final parties, toss in my earrings and heels; all the trappings of my small-town urban life boxed and shipped.
I’m left with my raggedest, ill-fitting, badly matched summer survival gear, sandals, a bottle of […]
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I’m back, I’m rested, and I’m slightly tanned. I spent spring break in Thailand. It was messy, sandy, beachy, lovely, delicious, and above all stinking HOT. It was a nice break, and mostly blurs into a haze of beach and Bangkok traffic.
The first day to Bangkok, arrived at midnight and waited in the airport […]
Spent last weekend in Tokyo. I hadn’t been back since the insane days of job orientation I vaguely recall from when I first arrived in Japan. From out here in the middle of nowhere inaka, north of Osaka on the Sea of Japan, it’s a 10-hour overnight bus ride.
Ever more the master of sleeping […]
I was home for Christmas this year. It was the first time I’ve been home since coming to Japan a year and a half ago. Since I bought my tickets I had been awaiting this trip anxiously. I was excited to go home, and nervous that somehow I might have gotten old, or that too […]
A friend invited me to spend a few days with her in Okinawa, using a Japanese domestic-only birthday flight deal to get there and back.
It was sweet, I spent two days on the beach (where I got sunburned from under like 2 cm of sunscreen AND an umbrella, amazing) and some time sightseeing and getting […]