In advance of our trip to Bali, past visitors had shared with us their good and bad opinions about the island. The good was the obvious...

I suspect the geography nerds among you will take great umbrage with the title, given that only Cambodia and Laos haver smaller...

Ten days covering the length of Vietnam required but a letter.

We arrived in Bangkok with some trepidation of Intrepid, our first group tour. We spent 8.5 weeks in Japan and South Korea and it isn’t...

Look, Cambodia has its wonderful qualities. But, we're human and as such suffer from all psychological biases, including recency bias....

In an icy blur, our trip to South Korea is over. Sandwiched by our two months in Japan and our thirty-day guided tour of SE Asia, we had...

And, just like that, we depart Japan. I wasn’t quite sure how to write a proper goodbye to a country that has changed our perspective on...

One month ago, if I was asked to name 3 cities in Japan, the three that would immediately come to mind would be Tokyo, Hiroshima and...

There was an Overheard in Chicago Insta post recently where someone supposedly said, “Is there anything worse than a childless couple...

Meeting a geisha is hard. Beating one? Unheard of. Some context. It's incredibly difficult to have an evening or experience with one of...

After leaving Tokyo, we rounded out the month of October with a brief trip to Hokkaido and an introduction to our home for the next...

In our last Tokyo post, we kind of breezed through an important part of the final minutes there: becoming samurai. That is because the...

Like a snap of the fingers, our first month and first RTW destination city have come and gone. On October 23rd, we said Sayonara to...

We have less than one week left in Tokyo and are going to miss it something fierce. While the first several days can be characterized by...

Finally, we are feeling better acquainted with Tokyo. We’ve been able to call audibles on train directions, navigate with ease the...

Today is our 11th day here, and as I love (and will always love) palindromes, that calls for a celebratory blog post. So let's dig in....

We’re friends, right? Good. We’re going to tell you our story like we told a good friend. In a text. Ok, so it's been a few days. We...