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Tokyo’s Food Tour

Food tours can be a mixed bag. There are a lot of variables, and you lack control over most of them. We’ve had food tours where the food was mediocre, the other participants were annoying, and the guide made up…

Video Games, Board Games, and More

We started our second day in Tokyo by wandering around the neighborhood near our hotel. It was incredibly quiet. Many people were heading to work (it was Monday morning), but not a lot was open yet besides the konbini and…

Then and now

The last time I was in Japan was over 20 years ago. How time flies. On the plane ride here, I thought back to how I experienced Japan as a 19-year-old. Quite a lot has changed since then. Japan was…

New Things Are Hard

It’s amazing all the thousands of tiny foundational components that make up our daily lives. Things we don’t think about and just inherently know. Okay fine. We learn them as kids, but as adults, they’re second nature. Think about it.…