Japan 2023: Day 2 / Arashiyama Bamboo Grove
Today was our first official vacation day, and on our schedule was the Arashiyama Bamboo Grove!
Japan 2023: Day 1 / Shinkansen to Kyoto
Continuing from the day before, it turned out my vertigo was not temporary, and I woke up unable to get out of bed at first.
Japan 2023: Day 0 / Tokyo Landing
After a failed attempt in February due to being hospitalized, today marked our successful flight to Japan! We had to adjust our itinerary to account for my mom’s knee, but I think we did really well all things considered. I will try to post every single day of our trip this time (I know I say this every time) instead of letting them rot in my drafts.
Offline: Deer Friends
Been visited Seattle this week! It took a couple of tries, but we managed to meet up today in downtown. This was his first time in Seattle, and our first time meeting up in person, so we tried to make it chill and easygoing. While I’ve been making strides in my recovery, I was still […]
Monterey: This moment, sparkling like stars in our hand
Today was the day!!! Not only my birthday, but the highly anticipated trip to Monterey. I went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium for work a very long time ago, and have been following their twitter for some time. I was so excited to go with my friends for once! We woke up early-ish to get […]
Vancouver Christmas Market
After dinner, we headed over to the Vancouver Christmas Market held nearby. Before I was born, my mom and dad were stationed in Germany for several years. Growing up she always told me about the christmas markets in Germany, and how magical they were. I was finally able to experience the real thing in 2019, […]
Vancouver, BC: Fanny Bay Oysters
Finally after three full days of dreary overcast, the sun came out.. Not a cloud in the sky! It was our last day in Canada, and to be honest I was feeling a little under the weather. My throat usually hurts from hotel AC towards the end of a trip, so I chalked it up […]
Vancouver, BC: Christmas Trip !!
It’s finally the day we head up to Vancouver for a one-week Christmas trip! We’ve been planning for a couple of weeks, and while I’ve been nervous about traveling outside of work, I was really looking forward to visiting Vancouver again. I woke up around 8:30AM, all packing finished the night before, and made a […]
Utah: arches national park — courthouse towers and petrified dunes
After getting back to the car, we headed to the Courthouse Towers, which was just on the other end of the Park Avenue trail. You can walk the whole way and back to the Courthouse Towers from the Park Avenue viewpoint, but we opted to only go half-way since it was just the beginning of […]
Utah: arches national park — park avenue
Maybe thanks to the exhaustion of getting here, I slept early and woke up right at 6AM after what felt like the best sleep I’ve had in a long time. The three of us went down to eat breakfast in the hotel, then got ready for our full day in Arches. Our first stop was […]