This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. And to be clear up front: nothing here is financial advice — I’m just telling you what a dollar bought my family in Japan this summer. The Japanese yen is trading at about […]
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Our family of four averaged seven to eight miles of walking a day in Japan. I know because my phone kept telling me, usually around the time one of our kids started negotiating for a taxi. Here’s how we actually got around — trains, cabs, Ubers, and a whole lot of sidewalk — and the
I’m going to be honest about my first reaction to Visit Japan Web: I thought it was a scam. Someone recommended it before our trip to Japan this summer. I pulled up the website, saw a URL I didn’t recognize, and found a plain-looking government form asking for my passport number. Every instinct I’ve developed
Visit Japan Web Site – Awesome! Read More »
This post contains affiliate links. If you buy through them, I may earn a small commission at no extra cost to you. Before this summer, I thought bidets were weird. Honestly, they were a little gross. Water shooting at my backside? No, thank you. I had no intention of ever using one. Then we went
To Bidet or Not To Bidet. It’s Not a Question. Read More »
I’d been circling smart glasses for about a year before I finally pulled the trigger on the Ray-Ban Meta (Gen 2) Wayfarers. We are traveling as a family to Japan this summer and I wanted something easier than my phone to take quick pictures and videos. Voilà – here comes some new smart glasses. These
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Air travel today is crowded, unpredictable, and occasionally chaotic. Over time I’ve learned that having a few reliable items in my carry-on can make travel significantly easier. After enough delayed flights, lost luggage, and long international trips, these are the items that now go into my carry-on bag every single time I travel. These carry-on
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Why we’re taking our kids to India for the first time, what my childhood memories were really like, and why we’re flying economy there and business class back to see if the premium is worth it.
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