Broadway Ticket Lottery, Seeing Shows on the Cheap in New York
Seeing shows on Broadway in New York is one of my favorite parts about our yearly East Coast visits, but it is extremely spendy. I do love it so much I have to ask,...
Category: Destinations
How To Woo a Pirate in San Francisco, CA
Tom and I spent our 2nd wedding anniversary in San Franciso and to celebrate I planned what turned out to be the most pirate-themed date EVER. Tom is a rum aficionado and so we...
Easy Day Hikes in Whistler, Canada. Sleep, Eat, Work, Do.
Sleep After our day in the great outdoors of Capilano, we were very excited to kick the dust of Vancouver off of our heels and drive up to the town of Whistler. In the...
Capilano Suspension Bridge: A Real-Life Ewok Village!
The Capilano suspension bridge park is just 15 minutes or so out of downtown Vancouver, but feels other-worldly. The platforms and swinging bridges set among the thriving coastal rainforest of 1300-year-old towering trees bears...
One Full Day of Things To Do in Vancouver, Canada
Tom and I often find that we lack the “get up and go” for a full day of sightseeing that many other travelers have. More often than not we get sucked into work or...
Shore Leave! A Few Hours in Hakodate, Japan & Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, Russia
Our fourteen night journey across the pacific on the Celebrity Millennium was much more about transportation than it was about seeing exciting ports of call. Booking the cruise also gave us the excuse we...
How Much Does it Cost to Travel to Japan? Our Japan Travel Budget.
Tom and I had always wanted to visit Japan in our travels, but it’s reputation as an incredibly expensive location made it easy to put off visiting until “someday”. That day finally arrived when...
Shinjuku Garden & Meiji Shrine in Tokyo, Japan
One of our favorite things to do in a big city is to just walk around and see what there is to see. We tend to spend more of our time in smaller, laid...
Spring is in the Air in Mount Fuji Japan
They say you can’t miss what you never had, but I don’t know if that’s true. Growing up in San Diego I often felt like I missed the seasons. Maybe even more so than...
Nishiki Market & Geisha Musical in Kyoto, Japan
The Nishiki Market runs for 5 narrow blocks as a narrow, roofed shopping street. The market has been called “Kyoto’s Kitchen”, and just like at a party, it seems like everyone ends up in...
Vermilion Torii Gates in Kyoto, Japan
Red, orange, even red-orange just doesn’t cut it when trying to describe the thousands of traditional gates that make up the Fushimi Inari Shrine on the outskirts of Kyoto, Japan. Vermilion is really the...
Osaka, Japan: Cuisine, Castles and Pachinko
As I mentioned in our review of Fujiya 1935, Osaka is a city proud of it’s cuisine. It’s most famous dish is indubitably oknomiyaki, a savory frittata-esque egg and cabbage dish. We went to...
We are Tom and Jenny. Entrepreneurs, travelers and spicy food aficionados. California is officially "home" but we can usually be found a lot closer to the equatorial belt. We started an app development company and have been calling anywhere with an internet connection "the home office" for the last few years.