Hi, I’m G. I suck at updating my blog. So have a picture. Temples like this are SO rad!!

HAPPY NEW YEAR, everyone! We’ve been out of touch here for awhile because we’ve been doing SO much awesome sightseeing and doing so many cool things. We’ll catch up eventually but for now I wanted to let you know we’re alive, well, excited to have arrived here in Japan in time to celebrate New Year’s [...]

I cannot contain the excitement, so now seems like a good time for a quick update! BIRTHDAY!!! :D :D :D Trip! Life! FUN!! A lot of people grumble their way through their birthdays or ignore or forget them altogether. I like my birthday. A lot! It’s a great day to celebrate being around. I like [...]

The Potala Palace is AMAZING!!! It had been one of my favorite exotic, seemingly-so-far-away magazine pictures I’d ripped out and taped onto my wall back in Tucson to keep me motivated during our two years’ saving for this trip and it was even better in person than it was in that awesome photo. I’m not [...]

After a 45-hour train ride the same day we disembarked our awesome 5-day Yangtze River cruise (!!! Yikes what a day!!!!), we are HERE in TIBET!!! We even drove by the Potala Palace already, which we will be visiting tomorrow! Can’t write much now because due to the 12,000ft elevation it could pose a risk [...]