If you want to couple some outdoor activity like biking with a cultural activity liking drinking (hehe), the area around Mendoza, Argentina is a good place to do it. There are three main wine regions around Mendoza: Lujan de Cuyo, Maipu, and the Uco Valley. The Uco Valley The Uco Valley is furthest away – […]
All Things Travel
A Night at the Grocery
One of my favorite ways to pick up a little culture when I travel to a new place is to make a beeline for the grocery store. You’ll find all sorts of things that real people who really live there use in their day to day lives. You’ll see crazy soup mixes and vegetables you […]
4 Important Things to Know Before Traveling to Buenos Aires
These four tips will help you when visiting Buenos Aires for the first time. 1. Buenos Aires has TWO airports Be aware of which one you are flying into as they are in different directions and could potentially trip you up if you head to the wrong one. (Like we did in Venice on our […]
Renting a Car and Driving in Argentina
On our recent trip to Argentina, we rented a car to help us get around Mendoza and the Uco Valley, which is about an hour and a half from the city. Our goal was to visit a bunch of wineries and while we would rather have had a driver, we wanted the independence of a […]
Domaine Bousquet and the Best Meal of My Life
If you’re interested in visiting any Argentinian wineries in Mendoza and the Uco Valley, you may have read about the awesome, hours long, multi-course lunches with free flowing wine and gourmet food. When we were there we treated ourselves to two long lunches in the Uco Valley – one down-home and relaxed at Bodega la […]
Truth: How I REALLY Felt About Climbing Fuji
I posted a while back about that time I climbed Mount Fuji and just now came across an original post from my old blog years ago, right after I’d done it. It’s interesting to see how the rose colored glasses changed things over time. Here’s the original: Mount Fuji Originally posted September 27, 2007 Last […]
Napa Like a Grown Up
On a recent trip to San Francisco, we took a day trip to Napa. Our friends arranged for a driver to bring us to and from so no one had to worry about being the designated driver. It also made us feel very fancy. We didn’t go to a ton of places in Napa, but […]
My Japanese House; Part II (but really part I)
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, called Interac. Unlike the JET […]
What Does Teacher Housing in Japan Look Like? Here’s Mine.
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 discounted rent. I lived here […]
Excuse me, Hammam? I think you dropped your loofah.
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 spa was not like western […]