Mt Fuji
To get from Osaka to the Mt Fuji area using our JR train pass, we had to take six different trains. When the lady at the ticket window handed us […]
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Osaka
From Kyoto, it’s only about a 45-minute train ride to Osaka. After arriving in Osaka and getting a bite to eat, we headed to Osaka Bay. The bay area is […]
Kyoto
Kyoto is the one place on our Japan itinerary that I had been to before; I was here in September 2000 as part of Semester at Sea. There are two […]
Tokyo
One of our first impressions of Tokyo was that it’s impressively clean, which is not something we’ve come to expect from large cities. We didn’t see any trash on the […]
Goodbye USA…Hello Tokyo
We made it Tokyo! We got here via LA on Singapore Airlines; we’d never flown with them before, but had heard good things. Gotta say, we were impressed. Each seat […]
Bags are packed!
It’s been a whirlwind the last few weeks. Between wrapping up work, having family in town, remodeling the basement, getting ready to leave the country, and seeing people one last […]
Leg 2 – The journey continues…
When Jay and I set out to fulfill our dream of traveling the world together, we decided that instead of going overseas for a full year at one time, we […]
Iceland – Reykjavik and the South Coast
This is officially the last blog post of our journey this winter. Ideally, I would have finished blogging while we were still traveling, but I got behind. It is definitely […]
Iceland – The Golden Circle
The last stop on our journey this winter was Iceland. We ended up in Iceland because our best flight option from Europe back to the States was on Iceland Air […]
Versailles
During our stay in Paris, we did a day trip to Versailles to visit the royal château. Back when it was built, Versailles was a country village, now it’s basically […]
Jay and Joann's Journey 