A few weeks ago I showed you my apartment in Iizuka, where I worked as an English ALT with the JET Programme. But before I moved to Iizuka, I actually lived in another even smaller town in Japan called Chikuzen-machi and worked as an English teacher with a different company,…
In case you were wondering what housing in Japan looks like, here’s a glimpse into where I lived in Iizuka, a city in the Fukuoka prefecture, on Kyushu, the southern island. It’s called a jutaku, and it’s an apartment block that is dedicated to housing teachers and usually has a…
When my sister and I were in Fez, we met a cool British couple, James and Josephine. Josephine had been wanting to go to the spa so we went with her. It was an all women’s establishment so James was the odd man out. Little did we know that the…
When I was a kid we had a ton of books. There was one story that I especially loved called Mischief in Fez, which was full of djinns, and animals that could talk and shape shift, and of course, lots of mischief and guess where it was?? I didn’t even…
I was just re-telling this story about Cathay Pacific to my friends yesterday and thought it would be a funny thing to share on my blog. Back when I was living in Japan we took advantage of our proximity to the rest of Asia to do as much traveling as…
I’ve been reading a lot in the news lately about Mount Everest and it got me thinking about the time that I climbed Mount Fuji. I’m not sure about Everest, but when you set out to climb Fuji… Continue reading
There’s a ton to do in and around Austin but one of our favorite places is a cool little beer farm – part hippie, part hipster – called Jester King. It’s about a twenty-five minute drive from downtown Austin, into a more rural, scrubby sort of terrain. The brewery is just off…Continue reading
Anyone can be pickpocketed. But travelers are a good target, either because they look lost, they are lost or because they’ve got a lot of stuff with them. No matter the reason, I’ve collected a handful of cautionary tales over the course of my travels. Come nearer friends, gather ’round…
I didn’t do much traveling for this particular post. San Antonio is only about an hour and a half from our house in Austin. But I planned a 50 person event at a hotel a couple of years ago and racked up a ton of points so every now and…
Sometimes I like to re-share posts from the blog I kept when I was living in Japan. In this one I’m rambling on about going to Korea with my sister and complaining about my work as an English teacher. I guess there’s nothing that great or interesting here, just that…
