Day 358: December 28 v2 — Tokyo to Kauai — Back in the US!
Flying from Japan to Hawaii is traveling back in time. We spent our first December 28th, 2019 in Tokyo — homeschooling, exploring Shinjuku, then heading to Narita airport in Tokyo...
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Day 352: TeamLab Borderless in Odaiba — Grownup Dinner at Hoshinoya
The rain had moved out overnight. Today was a blue-sky winter day — our first full day in Tokyo! We’re stoked. I took a jog along the Meguro River that...
Day 346: Navigating Kyoto Trains — Shopping, Deer Feeding and Temple Viewing on a Rainy Day in Nara
For the second morning in a row here in Kyoto I was up for an hour or so around 4am and then eventually fell back asleep until 7:30 or 8....
Day 322: Saturday Market — Taupo Playground and Shopping — Family Pétanque Battle
Six weeks from today we leave Hawaii to fly home. Eeeeek! A couple days ago we saw a sign for a “Saturday Market” in Taupo. We headed over this morning...
Day 211: Chill Day at The Bivou — Clay Tile Cats with Kiran and Tina
In a year or so when we’re frantically managing work / school / life / etc back in the US I hope we’ll remember days like today. We had no...
Day 125: Second Day in Cairo — Pyramids and Sphinx in Giza
Margaret’s instagram post summed up the day: “Wouldn’t be a trip around the world without this pic. Boom.” We left the hotel around 8:30am, making the 20 min drive to...
Day 109: Durban to Johannesburg — Trampolining at the Mall
Last night I was on the phone from 8pm to 10:30. I had a call with my brother, catching up and talking through some Headfirst business items. Then chatted with...
Day 86: Road Trip Six Hours West Back to Cape Town and… LOBSY!
Jeffrey Gettleman, longtime Africa correspondent for the NYT, writes in his memoir, Love, Africa: “My feeling is you don’t really know a place until you drive it.” (Teddy’s reading it...
Day 63: Mingling with Hipsters at the Old Biscuit Mill — Bob Marley and Dirt Bikes at Constantia Uitsig
We did school first thing and then drove over to something called the Old Biscuit Mill. “It’s more Williamsburg than Africa, but it’s cool,” is what Luke and Meg told...
Day 60: Hanging Out like Locals – Gym, School, Playground, Cooking at Home
Day 60! Wow. Margaret got up and took an Uber to the “Drenched” boxing gym near our place. We did a couple hours of school, had lunch at home and...