I have never dealt well with loss and death. When I was planning my wedding two years ago, I had a hard time dealing with the fact that my grandmother, who passed away in my teen years, would not be there. Even though she had been gone for […]
Earlier this year, I visited Japan in the high heat of summer with my little brother, cousin, and husband. Thus far, I have published all our highlights from the trip, in terms of which cities and sites we visited. This post is more of a summary and reflection […]
Due to the travel issues discussed in my two previous posts, we lost two nights and one day in Hiroshima. This meant that we had to combine our two day itinerary into one day. This, after climbing Mount Fuji, nearing the end of our vacation, and spending all […]
When we last left off, it was around 6pm at night, and we were on our way back from Mount Fuji and 2 hours from arriving in Tokyo. The last trains for Hiroshima would have left close to the time we arrived in Tokyo, and they weren’t covered […]
The day before we climbed Mount Fuji, there was a typhoon and an earthquake. I was worried the trails would be closed, but thankfully the storm blew out of the way before we arrived at the starting point. The first day we climbed Mount Fuji, there was sun […]
