Travel Tips

  • Tips and Observations For A First Time Traveler To Japan

    I’ll admit, I was intimidated by the thought of traveling to Japan. Even though I’m fairly well traveled in Asia, I knew things would be different. There’s the language issue, etiquette, unfamiliar food and even with the research I did, I found…

  • Japan Travel Resources and Links

    Below are links to sites I found helpful during the research for our trip. I didn’t use every single one of them, because there is just way too much information out there and we only had a week, but thought it might be useful…

  • On Deciding To Go To Japan

    I’ve wanted to go to Japan for a long time now, but I think it might have been the movie Lost in Translation which sealed it into my mind as an object of fascination. Recently, close friends went for a week…

  • The Death of Travel Blogging; Where Has All The Content Gone?

    I’ve been writing about travel online since 1998. Since before it was called blogging. Before “blogs” even existed.  I started writing about travel because in 1998 my husband and I took a year off to travel around the world. Just about…

  • Kindle 3 Review-Part 2

    I’ve now had my Kindle for almost four months, taken it on a few trips, and thought I’d report back on my experience and share some new information. If you didn’t read my first post on why the Kindle is one of the best…

  • How to Prepare Kids for First-Time Travel

    When discussing the pros and cons of having kids, I always thought that showing my children the world through travel would have be a big plus in the “pro” column. Yet so many people tell me one of the reasons…

  • Tips for Visiting the Ancient Temples of Angkor

    I’ve visited the temples of Angkor on both of my previous trips in 2002 and 2007 and each time spent at least three days seeing as much as possible. This time, I only spent one day revisiting three of the most popular…