Once again, catching up on the last trip, right before we head out on another. This is a picture gallery from a family trip to Tokyo last fall. After touring Taipei for a few days, we spent about a week in Tokyo. As usual… long aimless days and no time to post any updates. The […]
A friend once told me that “if you wish China was more like Japan, you’d really like Taiwan.” I won’t attempt to touch on the myriad of problems with that statement, but I think I know now a bit of what he meant. Our first stop on this little two week family trip is in […]
Hopefully this doesn’t become a habit… Here we are about to take off on another trip, and I never got around to updating a post for the last couple days of our Australia visit. Anyhow, better late than never.
Our last island stop for this trip is a visit to the main island of Tongatapu in Tonga. While a Sunday on this island is certainly a surreal and interesting experience, it is also, by most holiday metrics, a wasted day. No normal restaurants, no shopping, no transport, no tours. Nothing. Thankfully, we had a […]
Our flight from Vanuatu brought us into Fiji in the early evening and we opted to overnight at a fairly modest airport resort before transiting to our private island resort the next morning. We stayed overnight at the “TokaToka”, which seemed to evoke like a low-priced Disney Polynesian Resort. The place is literally across the […]
Active volcanoes, remote beaches, and WWII-era airstrip-revering cults… that’s what we signed up with a stop in Vanuatu. Several days here mostly delivered on all of the above, along with a few nice surprises.
Prior to some island-hopping in the South Pacific, we had a couple days transiting through Sydney and Brisbane. Our original plan was to connect through Brisbane and spend a couple nights in The Solomon Islands. Unfortunately, weather delays in Brisbane had us overnight there and rearrange the next leg of the trip. If you’re planning […]
Ok look… better late than never on this post. We’re about to start on a new trip, so, you know, now is the time to finish posting from the last one. Seriously though, I’ve said it before, and it’s still true: Every time we visit Japan we end up staying in smaller and smaller areas […]
Our main goal with a visit to the island of Borneo was to visit the country of Brunei, checking off a more remote country in the area. Many visitors to the island will spend some time in Malaysia as well, but we focused our limited time with just Brunei. Coming in from the air, my […]
Getting to Singapore is a bit of a marathon…. Thirty hours transit, including a 7-hour flight AFTER the trans-Pacific flight to Tokyo. All of this had us pretty wiped out when we finally got there. Like many of the flight itineraries originating from the US, our flight had us touching down just after midnight. At […]
This trip has been paced a bit differently than many we have taken previously. We had a few days to visit London, spaced in both the front and back end of the trip. In the end, the kind of itinerary we might pack into a day or two was spread out over a few days.
Iceland has been the main objective on this itinerary. More specifically, we were seeking out some northern lights viewing with a few family members. We’ve also managed a lot of fun and incredible sightseeing, but if we had returned without any aurora sightings, it might have felt like a bit of a failure. Thankfully, we […]
Heading into the ninth and final country on our Balkan tour, we’ve seen some common themes emerge. Just like much of Europe, kebaps are very popular, but they prepare them totally different in the Balkans (they look like little breakfast sausages). Gelato presentation is elevated to a high art in order to draw your gaze. […]
Ljubljana might just be the busiest city we’ve visited on this trip so far. My first impression of Slovenia is that it fits in far better with Austria and Hungary and Czech Republic than it does with Bosnia and Croatia. There are certainly remnants of communism in the architecture and urban design. Culturally, there are […]
With our home base in Split, we took day trips around and outside the city pretty efficiently by car. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that a lot of the stops happen to be “Game of Thrones” set locations. These places were chosen because they’re already amazing to see. Split itself feels a bit more […]