Germany Japan 2023 Home in blue skies ... again! Yesterday was probably the worst rain of the trip, even if I managed to dodge it all and my brand new umbrella is still nicely wrapped up. And today ... absolutely nothing. Because I'm
Germany Japan 2023 The Final Odaiba After yesterdays late night, I was more than happy to sleep in a bit. And the fact that it started raining as I started to look at the clock with a "do I
Germany Japan 2023 Enoshima (æ±ăźćł¶), Kamakura (éć) and Yokohama (æšȘæ”) attempt II So, yesterday my feet saw a hill. And had to walk down it backwards. Today, my feet are seeking a restraining order. And while I was hoping the general mood would get better
Germany Japan 2023 Takao-san (é«ć°Ÿć±±) and Yokohama (æšȘæ”) So, the forecast for today looked pretty similar to that of yesterday. But I have an umbrella now ... right? Which means, if I take it with me, I don't have to worry about
Germany Japan 2023 Akihabara (ç§èć) With today being Sunday, I decided to go to Akihabara today, since it's fun watching them close the main street and seeing all the crowds. But equally, keeping with the tradition of spending
Germany Japan 2023 Shibuya (æžè°·) Today's plan was pretty simple. Head down to Shibuya and see what we find along the way and presumably enjoy watching the bustle around the Shibuya crossing when we get there. Now, on
Germany Japan 2023 Asakusa (æ” è) After waking up so early, I tried to keep resting in the hotel room, knowing full well that Tokyo is generally a sleepy city, as well as knowing that the earlier I head
Germany Japan 2023 Heading halfway home Hmm, my favorite, waking up before 7am so that I can drive to the airport, return the rental car, be able to check in my luggage, and have enough spare time such that
Germany Japan 2023 Family Party II The last couple of days have not had a lot of blog worthy material. Yesterday I didn't even take out the camera as we were basically just heading back to family. There were
Germany Japan 2023 WĂŒrzburg Weeks of no rain they said. A heat wave they warned. I'm not too sure we speak the same language because in my heat waves, I'm not slowing down to 50 on the
Germany Japan 2023 DinkelsbĂŒhl So the original plan for getting out of Ulm was: throw everything in the car, park the car in the city, explore the Saturday market, and head out of town. We started with
Germany Japan 2023 Ulm Today we stayed in Ulm. Our experienced guide wanted to make up some brownie points for yesterdays lack of information about a fireworks festival, and took us around town center at a time
Germany Japan 2023 Ulm via Augsburg Last night, even in the hotel we were all cuddled up in our blankets as we sat on the sofa to chat before going to bed. This morning, the blanket didn't feel like
Germany Japan 2023 Wet South End Today was a bust. We left MĂŒnchen and started driving to the southern end of Germany. And as promised, it was wet and cold. Occasionally we got little bit of blue skies which
Germany Japan 2023 Deutsches Museum The whole reason for stepping foot in Bavaria in the first place was that I got high recommendations for the Deutsches (German) Museum. And universally, it didn't matter who I talked to, everyone
Germany Japan 2023 MĂŒnchen The forecast has finally stopped threatening and started delivering. We drove through a fair amount of rain on our journey to MĂŒnchen, and it continued to try and make things miserable by constantly
Germany Japan 2023 TĂŒbingen Well ... it's certainly quite a statement. In the middle of seemingly nowhere, you get a giant concrete tower with "self-cleaning" fiberglass shrouds that comes with 12 elevator shafts. And that's what it does:
Germany Japan 2023 The road to nowhere So I got given an address. Which I followed. But the further I went, the smaller, narrower, and slower the roads seemed to get. By the time I turned into some alley with
Germany Japan 2023 Baden Baden This morning we went by bus and funicular up the local mountain to get ourselves a proper view over the city. What we didn't expect was that the more entertaining thing up there
Germany Japan 2023 Baden-Baden-WĂŒrg Yesterday was too much family and too much driving to remember to take the camera out. Though it's kind of crazy how jumping between entire cities here takes less time than it takes
Germany Japan 2023 German Food More relaxation. More family catch up (who knew that after not seeing each other for so many years, that there would be so much to chat about). And this time, the evening dinner
Germany Japan 2023 Strasbourg Today was a small driving day, including getting to experience my next international crossing (i.e. completely uneventful besides that the street signs no longer made as much sense). What we did get
Germany Japan 2023 Mannheim One of the big things that I was looking forward to by going traveling is finally getting some exercise again. The winter back home is not motivating me to do anything besides continuing
Germany Japan 2023 Family Party I The good part about being jet-lagged in the direction of Europe is that I make everybody happy by being such an early riser all of a sudden (though we'll see how long that
Germany Japan 2023 Leg Room?! I made it! But at what cost? 36 hours of flying, waiting a bunch, getting on a longer flight that decides to take the long way around, waiting a bunch more, getting on