Hey there! Remember us? It’s a fair assessment to say that the longer between blog updates, the better life is going. At least, that’s the case here! We’re in Hakuba and we are LOVING IT!!! These are the main peeps we interact with, except the lady next to me who is the organizer of most [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Man I am exhausted. In a good way, but still exhausted. Still sleep-deprived after a 4-hour night before going to see the AMAZING Leshan Buddha, then we stayed up and out much longer than anticipated because we decided to be social for once outside of our little G-Ray bubble of travel happiness and antisocial contentment [...]
