Moving sucks. It sucks when you’re moving just down the street, and it sucks when you’re moving from one country to another. Somehow, though, the normal stresses of moving take on a whole new level of awful when you’re moving back to your home country after any amount of time living […]
As soon as our contracts as English teachers ended, Jeff and I jetted off on a three-week tour of southern Japan. We spent a week in paradise, a day in hell, and got to see the chaos of Japan’s biggest festival–Tokushima’s Awa Odori. To the chagrin of our mothers, we […]
Hell exists, and it’s located in Beppu City, Oita Prefecture, Japan. But it’s actually not all that bad of a place. In fact, it’s pretty cool, and definitely worth a visit.
Okinawa Prefecture in Japan has long been one of our dream destinations. We decided ages ago that once our jobs as English teachers ended, we’d go; in fact, I booked our plane tickets back in February. You’d think that with almost half a year of preparation, and how much I love […]
There’s nothing quite like piling into a karaoke room with a few friends to sing your heart out after a night of drinking. Grab the touchscreen input, search for your favorite songs, add them to the line up, and rock out until you sound like a 50-year smoker at the end […]
