Hello again my friends! First and foremost this is my 50th blog post! Like whoa!  I started this blog to journey our time aboard, but didn’t expect it to become my outlet.  I love writing it and I just hope that everyone enjoys reading it as much as I love blogging it! Believe it or…

I won’t lie over the past year and half John and I have started to collect quite a few visits to UNESCO World Heritage Sites.  Ha Long Bay was added to our list during our stint in Vietnam.  An awesome thing about expat life that is most of the friends we’ve made in Japan have…

“Motorbike exhaust, fish sauce, incense, the faraway smell of something — is that pork grilling over charcoal?…It could be no place else.” ~Anthony Bourdain WARNING SO MANY FOOD PICTURES AHEAD Our final big city stop in Vietnam was Hanoi.  Of course when I think of Hanoi I think of motorbikes and that episode of Parts Unknown where…

It was at this point during our vacation that I realized I quite possibly could be traveled out.  As much as I hated to admit that to myself, it was true.  Hoi An was meant to be the break in our trip for the rest and relaxation, however, some how my two days of relaxation…

There was a time in my life when I thought Florida was the most humid place there could ever be, until I moved to Japan.  Then I decided that Japan was the most humid place there could ever be.  Wait for it, wait for it… turns out the humidity in Japan means absolutely nothing to…

Since moving to Japan I’ve now been to the summit of two mountains, seriously.  I know I have a hard time believing it too.  However, this country is pretty spectacular and let’s be honest here the views from the top are so worth the pain and suffering…and not being able to walk for three days after….

After 14 months away from the homeland it was finally time for John and I to head back to Michigan for our much-anticipated and likely only trip back, while living in Japan.  I have to admit that I was a bit anxious about our impending return.  Life in Japan feels normal now and to be…

Konnichiwa!! Long time no blog post! I was hoping to have this one out before I left on my home leave back to the States, but you know time got away from me…again! Most of you probably know that I had taken on the challenge of learning traditional Japanese tea ceremony shortly after my arrival…

I have a goal.  That goal is to visit all four of the main islands of Japan.  Therefore, with less than a year left in Japan I’ve decided that I can’t keep putting things off on my bucket list, so to Okinawa I went.  Obviously, most of you know that Japan is an island, made…

Ah Paro, where our Bhutan adventure came to an end.   I have to admit I felt a bit sad that our trip was ending.  Since Bhutan is probably the most adventurous country we have visited, I wasn’t expecting to completely love it.  Although, there were things I was super pumped to see when we…

Sorry for the delay in posts, somehow these got away from me!  I’ve also come to the conclusion that taking a guided tour through a country offers one so much knowledge that piecing it together in a blog posts presents as more challenging than anticipated.  But here it is! My thoughts and rambles on Punakha!…

I decided that I had WAY too much to say about our trip to Bhutan (and just about as many pictures), therefore I’m splitting it up into three different blog posts for each city we visited on our trip.  Here is post one.  Enjoy! There is always something exciting about traveling to exotic places, especially…