Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

September 2025

  • Sickness In Osaka

    Sickness In Osaka

    Travel Log: Day 89 (9/24), Osaka Japan Today is our first full day in Osaka. We are loving our Airbnb even more as we discover more about it. I found the best spot to sit and enjoy silence. It’s in the foyer once again, but this time I have tons of room, nice mood lighting,…

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  • Tokyo To Osaka

    Tokyo To Osaka

    Travel Log: Day 87 (9/22), Tokyo Japan This was our last full day in Japan and we kept it close to home. Part of the reason was just to enjoy our place, but it was also because JC is sick. The timing of that is not good considering we have to travel to Osaka tomorrow.…

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  • Surviving The Most Dangerous Neighborhood In Tokyo

    Surviving The Most Dangerous Neighborhood In Tokyo

    See day 85 below for the details of the most dangerous neighborhood in Tokyo. Travel Log: Day 82 (9/17), Tokyo Japan We woke up from our capsule adventure today coming off of poor sleep and alcohol. After getting our stuff together we checked out around 7:30am. The train system is pretty busy at that time…

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  • Tokyo Capsule Hotel & Shibuya Karaoke

    Tokyo Capsule Hotel & Shibuya Karaoke

    Travel Log: Day 81 (9/16), Tokyo Japan Typical homeschool day. Lawson for breakfast and lunch. We booked a capsule hotel for tonight just to try it out. The one we chose is Nine Hour near the Tokyo Tower, and the cost for all four of us was 18,430 yen (~$125.38). This post will focus on…

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  • Bridges To Normal Days

    Bridges To Normal Days

    Travel Log: Day 78 (9/13), Tokyo Japan JC and I ran like usual on Saturday. My back is still feeling ok so I’m hoping to find that I’m clear of the major tweak I had at Costa Rica. I’d like to chalk that up to a ridiculously soft bed. Around the middle of the day…

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  • Tokyo Tower And Popeye Beer Club

    Tokyo Tower And Popeye Beer Club

    Travel Log: Day 76 (9/11), Tokyo Japan The school day was normal today with the exception of once again pushing elective to the afternoon so we could get lunch ahead of the lunch rush. We’ve found even Lawson is kind of crazy at noon. JC and I went on a date night to Popeye Beer…

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  • Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) In Tokyo Airbnb

    Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) In Tokyo Airbnb

    Travel Log: Day 74 (9/9), Tokyo Japan This morning we returned to school as usual. In the afternoon we went to Nakamise Shopping Street. It’s a several block area that has a bunch of food and souvenir shops. JC and AC spent time going to the souvenir shops while BC and I went off to…

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  • Jet Lag Induced Insomnia: Practical Remedies

    Jet Lag Induced Insomnia: Practical Remedies

    In our recent move from Costa Rica to Japan, I experienced jet lag induced insomnia for the first time in my life. This was my first time experiencing any sort of extended insomnia. I severely underestimated how bad this would impact me. My guess was that I would sleep really badly for a night, then…

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  • Tokyo Museum Of Emerging Science

    Tokyo Museum Of Emerging Science

    Travel Log: Day 72 (9/7), Tokyo Japan Today was quiet. Our biggest event of the day was going to McDonals for lunch. I was reluctant to do that because I thought we’d look like a stereotype going in there. It would only be worse in my mind if we were fat-asses. Once we got in…

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  • Tokyo Sky Tree And Subway Stupidity

    Tokyo Sky Tree And Subway Stupidity

    See day 71 below to skip to the information about the Sky Tree and subway. Travel Log: Day 70 (9/5), Tokyo Japan For field trip Friday we were planning on going to the Sumo museum for the social studies portion of our day. It rained the entire day, and hard most of the time, so…

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