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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Kit Kats In Tokyo
To jump to information about Kit Kats, see the final travel log day below. Travel Log: Day 66 (9/1), Tokyo Japan School in the morning, nothing noteworthy. JC tweaked her neck pretty badly, so it was a miserable day for her. In the afternoon JC and I talked about how we’re going crazy here a…
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August Gap Year Budget Review
We have concluded another budget month while slow traveling internationally on our family gap year. I’m excited to crunch the numbers and see how our projections are matching reality. It’s the chance to prove or disprove that this approach of slow travel is sustainable over the long haul. Either way it’s useful data. The month…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
