Visiting a Fish Market (And dying of heat stroke) So our first full day of exploring Tokyo was definitely something interesting- we visited the Japanese Burj Khalifa, saw a few religious sites, the biggest collection of mice and headphones on Earth (enough to give my little brother a run for his money). Can everything from […]
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Metro System + Imperial Palace Okay, so this is quite surprising, but I actually didn’t sleep for as long as you’d expect. I was losing it the night before – feeling like I might collapse on the floor because of sleep deprivation at any second- unable to process everything I was seeing, there was a
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LAX to Haneda The ten-hour flight across the Pacific had begun, and we were racing down the runway at a speed that continued to get faster and faster. I started to feel more gravity work on me, and pretty soon we were in the air, racing in the direction of the ocean. I could
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Before Leaving I am writing this part about an hour after returning from Japan: WOAH. That was a lot- it lasted only twelve days, but there’s so much to explore and see in Japan that it might as well have taken a few times longer. I have more than enough stories to tell here- I
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This is it. The Finale of VN2023, which took more than 20 days in the real world and about 10 months of writing to finish. We’re pretty much done with the travel now, so the last few days will only consist of hanging with relatives, maybe visiting one or two more attractions, hanging with Mia
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One last day of exploring the North… let’s make it count. Today, we were going to Ha Long Bay itself, taking a boat cruise out to see all the islands in the area. If you’ve never heard of Ha Long Bay, you’ve definitely seen some of the pictures that come with it: these stone islands
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The trip is gonna be coming to an end soon (Don’t worry, as I write this I’m only four days away from a vacation to Japan, and a JP2024 series is coming up next!) as we now head for another long car drive to Ha Long Bay, which is on the entire other side of
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We were headed to Cat Cat Village. First things first on our minds while we were there: Are there cats in Cat Cat village? We weren’t sure, although Koia said there might be some people in the village that raised cats. This village was deep inside the valley, in the middle of all the rice
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We woke up right in our hotel the next day, excited to get on with our exploration of a part of Vietnam that many Vietnamese, let alone tourists, never get to visit. Waking up, we had an amazing view of the rural mountains, but they got even better when we headed to a cafe on
Hanoi, Vietnam June twenty something 2023 So, uh… We’re going back to the visiting relatives thing for a little bit. Most of the morning was spent visiting our family— our parents had coffee while I hung out with Casey and we pretty much just stared at our phones and watched YouTube the whole time. I’m
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