Japan Travel Moment: natto

I have eaten many “unconventional” things in the past, including things in Japan that twenty years earlier would have made me gag. At one time, neither Julia nor I would touch sushi, let alone sashimi, yet I had no problem eating raw beef with a raw egg, sea urchin, and I dutifully gulped down every …

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Six Days, Seven Nights (or thereabouts) on Kauai, pt. 6

Time to end the suspense, and bring to a close one of our favourite travel experiences. Kauai solidified the path for all of our future travel; we discovered that independent travel resonated with us far more than the All-Inclusive route. Travel became an adventure, about exploring and finding those out-of-the-way places that few others visit. …

Six Days, Seven Nights (or thereabouts) on Kauai, pt. 1

In this period of COVID-19 lockdowns, it has never been more enjoyable, nor therapeutic, to relive past travel experiences. Fortunately, I have been writing about these experiences since 1999 so can read about them over and over again. Here is the first in a series of stories from our first trip to Hawaii in 2000, …

4. Relive your entire experience

This is the most beneficial aspect of writing about vacations. A few months ago, I read my travel story from our first trip to Hawaii. This trip was back in 2001 and I was instantly transported back to Diamond Head, Hanauma Bay, and beautiful Kawaii. The picture of me sitting on Secret Beach, in Kawaii, …

3. Commit your trip to memory

I am not an expert on memory, or am I? A few years ago I decided to learn Japanese because, as an English Second Language teacher, I wanted to "put myself out there" and see how hard it was to learn another language. Of course I didn't want to make it easy on myself by …

1. Pictures don’t capture everything

I have taken a lot of pictures on vacations over the years and while they help jog memories of locations, they're a little static. I must first qualify that I am not a professional photographer, just a practiced duffer, but regardless of how accomplished you are as a photographer, the camera is visual medium and …