Travels October 30, 2015 Nikkō A fall weekend in Nikko full of hiking, eating, sightseeing and amazing autumn colors!
Daily Life / Travels June 15, 2015 Heavenly Poppies The heavenly poppy fields of Sainokuni Friendship Farm.
Daily Life / Eats / Play / Travels May 7, 2015 The Golden (Week) Rule Enjoying the Golden Week holidays with farmers markets, Oregon beer, phlox and hiking
Daily Life January 8, 2015 New Year: Daruma Festival and Koma Shrine Ringing in the New Year at Kawagoe's Daruma Festival and Hidaka's Koma Shrine.
Travels November 25, 2014 Kyoto: Fushimi Inari and Kiyomizu-dera Day 3 of our Kansai adventure takes us to Kyoto, where we visited Fushimi Inari Taisha and Kiyomizu-dera, one of Kyoto's 17 UNESCO World Heritage Sites
Travels August 4, 2014 On Top of the World It’s been around 90 degrees for about a month now. The humidity sits on you like a wet rag.
Travels July 28, 2014 Enoshima and Kamakura It’s been a HOT week in the Kantō region with most cities registering the year’s highest temperatures. University classes are
Play July 16, 2014 Hiking Hiwada Before leaving the U.S., we’d started to get into hiking. With the beautiful natural areas in Oregon, it’s not
Travels July 15, 2014 Staycation Japan has a lot to offer in terms of sightseeing. With Tokyo nearby, we’ve overlooked some of the local sights.
Travels May 26, 2014 Sanja Matsuri (Three Shrines Festival) Japanese shrines are impressive, but there’s a sense of “you’ve seen one, you’ve seen ’em all.” Small, local shrines
