Every Friday I’ll be sharing a photo from someplace in my travels. This week’s photo is from Owakudani in Hakone, Japan. Owakudani was like no where I had ever seen before, and simply for the colors alone. From the murky ice-blue water of the hot springs to the putrid yellow-green sulfur leaking from the earth, inside […]
Living abroad for an uncertain amount of time can be hard. I left my pets back home and I find myself constantly fighting any temptation to get a pet while in Hong Kong. Lucky for me, while we were in Japan I had the chance to visit a cat cafe. Everyone loves cats. I mean really, […]
It’s official! I’ve officially been living in Hong Kong for one year now. And holy cow did it go by fast. While I could go on and on about how amazing and life changing this year has been, I won’t. At least not in this post. Instead what I wanted to talk about today, is why all the […]
After living abroad in two very different Asian countries, Japan and Hong Kong, I am often asked a lot of questions regarding life in Asia. One of the most common questions I seem to get asked is whether or not one should learn Japanese before moving to Japan. And while I’m quite the advocate for learning any local language […]
After reading Amanda’s latest Dangerous Dispatch last week, I felt inspired to write a post on something that a surprising amount of travel bloggers have experienced, obviously myself included. (What?? You didn’t read her Dangerous Dispatch? It’s okay, mistakes happen. Sign up at her blog so that it doesn’t happen again, because she’s pretty awesome.) Amanda writes, I met a guy. Sounds […]