Category: Travel

  • Michigan

    When I got back home from Asia this summer, I was looking forward to just catching back up with life.  However, it just wasn’t it the cards just yet, at least for another few weeks.  After I completed my last doctoral course (just have to write a dissertation now), I was off to Michigan for…

  • Hiroshima, Japan

    Our last day trip was to the city of Hiroshima.  Hiroshima was the city I was most looking forward to since I have a deep interest in social studies and history, especially that of World War II.  The five-hour train ride surprisingly didn’t feel as long as it actually was.  Although, we definitely felt the…

  • Kyoto, Japan

    Getting out of the mega-city of Tokyo was a nice break every couple days or so.  It just so happened that after we got our rail passes that we decided to schedule a day trip outside of Tokyo about every other day. The bullet train ride from Tokyo to Kyoto was about three hours.  When…

  • Mount Fuji & Aokigahara

    Of course, Mount Fuji was at the top of our to-do list while in Japan.  Driving in Japan is manageable in a physical sense, but perhaps not as feasible in a mental and emotional sense.  Just getting out of Tokyo was an adventure in and of itself.  Although, once we got moving, it wasn’t so…

  • Kawagoe, Japan

    After three days of struggling with a rental car in Tokyo, me and my two friends racked up a $300 parking bill, sideswiped a cement pole, and got stuck in what was essentially an alleyway (but is somehow used for cars).  It took us a solid four hours to actually get the car out of…