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...
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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...
At Sea; A Budget Cruise Across the Pacific
As I’ve hinted in previous posts, Tom and I found a rather unique (for us) way to travel back to the Americas from Asia, via a cruise ship! We have learned time and time...
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...
Hotel Credit Cards With Best Rewards Points & Sign-up Bonuses
Using Credit Card Offers to Stay in Luxury Hotels. The Best. Lowdown So Tom and I do this thing. It’s a thing that no one else we’ve ever met does. We do it every...
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...
Travel Photo Roulette #86: Transport
**UPDATED** We have our winner! Scroll down past the past winners list to see the winner of Travel Photo Roulette #86! Thanks to everyone who entered, this was a much harder decision than we...
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...
Fujiya 1935, 3 Michelin Stars in Osaka, Japan
A popular Japanese belief is that people from Kyoto will spend all their money on clothes, people from Kobe on shoes, and people from Osaka will spend everything they’ve got on food. The Osakans...
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.