Traveling Toward Fire

A Premature FI Experiment

Travel Log

  • Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) In Tokyo

    Electronic Voice Phenomenon (EVP) In Tokyo

    We are not immune to boredom on our year long adventure, and it drove me to try something unusual. In the process I captured an electronic voice phenomenon (EVP) in our Tokyo Airbnb (see day 75 below). Travel Log: Day 74 (9/9), Tokyo Japan This morning we returned to school as usual. In the afternoon

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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 Tokyo Sky Tree and our subway stupidity. 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

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  • Kit Kat Flavors In Tokyo

    Kit Kat Flavors In Tokyo

    To jump to information about Kit Kat flavors in Tokyo, 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

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  • Shibuya Crossing Scramble

    Shibuya Crossing Scramble

    To skip to the info on Shibuya Crossing scramble, see day 65 below. Travel Log: Day 63 (8/29), Tokyo Japan This is being written two days after the fact, so I may be missing some details. The school day was shortened today to remove social studies from the regular timeline. We instead wanted to go

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  • Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)

    Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)

    See travel log day 62 below for into on Akihabara Electric Town. Travel Log: Day 60 (8/26), Tokyo Japan I slept like crap again last night. I got somewhere around 5 hours of total sleep and my worst ever sleep score of 43. Daytime tiredness was also at a new high. Finding Food We decided

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  • Jet Lag, The Punishment For International Travel

    Jet Lag, The Punishment For International Travel

    In this series of days I was suffering badly from jet lag, which I recognize as the price to be paid (punishment) for international travel across extreme time zones. Travel Log: Day 58 (8/24), Tokyo Japan JC and I slept on the futon bed in the living room last night, and it was actually pretty

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  • Japan Travel Day

    Japan Travel Day

    This duo of travel logs rolls up the hell of a travel day getting to Japan. Travel Log: Day 56 (8/22), Houston Texas, Pacific Ocean We caught our hotel shuttle to the airport at 7am, and did the airport stuff. We went through TSA pre check and the rules were of course different again. It

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  • Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    Preparing For Japan Launch From Houston

    In this series of days we are preparing for our Japan launch from Houston after arriving briefly back in the USA from Costa Rica. Travel Log: Day 53 (8/19), Jaco and San Jose Costa Rica Today we packed up all of our stuff and boarded our shuttle to San Jose. For BC and I this

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  • Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    Final Days In Jaco Costa Rica

    This set of days surrounds our final days in Jaco Costa Rica. Travel Log: Day 49 (8/15), Jaco Costa Rica Today we wrapped up the first week of homeschool. BC passed his vocab and spelling tests. We also did some fun stuff for astrophysics, learning about star deaths. We went to the pool in the

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