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Hiking in North Korea ~ Mt. Kumgang

This time last year, we were gearing up to enter North Korea, with a week long tour that was going to take us around Pyongyang and beyond. We wanted to experience as much variety as possible, and were pretty excited to see that hiking was something we could plan to do. Of course, when we say “plan” […]

July 13, 2015 | 1 Comment

Tokyo Fashion Has Stolen My Heart

I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again. There’s something about the Japanese women that causes me to have one giant girl crush on them. It’s not really one thing in particular, but a hundred different things that come together to create a petite, pastel-colored, fringed with lace and tied in a beautiful bow package of Japanese […]

June 26, 2015 | 0 Comments

Surviving a “Violently Crowded” Day at Tokyo Disneyland ~ Japan

With the help of Google Translate to help us understand the Disney Crowd Calendar, we were absolutely frightened when we discovered that the only day we could visit Tokyo Disneyland was predicted to be “Violently Crowded”! On an eight tiered scale that begins with “People Rattle” at less than 20 000 attendees, we couldn’t have picked a […]

May 24, 2015 | 4 Comments

6 Things to Know Before Visiting a Pet Cafe in Japan!

Let’s face it, the Japanese LOVE their pets! At 21.3 million, there are more registered pets in Japan than there are children!! With numbers like that, you’d think everyone in Japan would own some kind of animal, but pet ownership isn’t for everyone I guess. Enter, The Pet Cafe! Before our first trip to Japan, we […]