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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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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…
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Shibuya Crossing Scramble
To skip to the info on Shibuya Crossing, 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 to…
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Costa Rica Reflections
Before Costa Rica fades too far into the past, I wanted to capture my thoughts on our time there. It was overwhelmingly positive but I came away with things that I both loved and hated about it. There were also other things that I don’t judge as positive or negative, but instead just observe that…
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Akihabara Electric Town (aka Akiba)
See travel log day 62 below for into on Akiba. 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. We decided that jet lag or…
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Jet Lag, The Punishment For International Travel
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 comfortable. It didn’t save me from bad sleep though. We went to bed at 7:30 and then I woke up at 2am and never went back to sleep. Everyone…
Traveling Toward Fire
A Premature FI Experiment
