It's a creekmore world

Japan is unlike anything else we’ve seen.  It’s as foreign as the deepest jungle of Peru, or desert of Egypt, but it’s strangely familiar because it’s the most obsessively developed country on the planet.  Add to that a centuries old…

This is a photo update post written months after our final day in Kyoto Japan.  Like many of our last days on vacation, I couldn’t get the writing done to post the blog live. But it was one of our…

It’s time to switch gears from modern, pop Tokyo to ancient, spiritual Kyoto. Kyoto was Japan’s capital until the end of the shogun feudal period when the Emperor consolidated power and moved to Tokyo in 1869. It remains the biggest…

I wake up and check my bank accounts and call the front desk.   The damage is a lot, but not as bad as I thought.  How did I mistake that?  In my head I was paying 10,900 yen a…

Lily is already bouncing as we leave our airbnb apartment and take the difficult 3-change metro journey to Tokyo Disney where we will spend the next two days. She reminds us, nicely, that she hasn’t been to a disneyland resort…