Category: travel

Kyoto Weekend

This weekend we took a last family trip to Kyoto, Japan. It’s me with my wife and two daughters, since there’s no hope for departing the room before 10am I decided to head out on my own this morning to check out the local area where we are staying with AirBnB. On Billy’s personal agenda was the To-ji Temple and its 180 foot tall pagoda built in 1643.

Osaka

Don’t get me wrong, Universal Studios is very cool, the kids had a blast, but by the second day it felt like I was Teddy Kennedy’s drinking buddy after a weekend of carousing at Martha’s Vineyard. I was tired…

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This photo is all about getting lucky. Β We had moved to Fort Belvoir, VA in August 2017 and, like I normally do when we move to a new area as a military family, I explore close to home first before venturing out. Β Why? Β Because there are many times sites near, that are easy to miss when you head out looking at all the popular places first. Β It’s a lesson learned after living in Italy…

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Wisky was the nickname of the USS Wisconsin (BB-64), a WWII era battleship that, like her three mighty sister ships, America couldn’t seem to do without. Β She was originallyΒ commissioned in 1944 near the end of the Second World War but would beΒ recommissioned two more times and decommissioned a total of three times!

Tokyo Disneyland!

This week we had a family trip to our local Tōkyō DizunΔ«rando and as someone who has been to Disneyland or Disneyworld no less than a half-dozen times or so, I’d honestly love to go somewhere else sometimes. Β The first couple of visits were cool, but the ever-increasing ticket prices, paying top dollar for cafeteria food, and long lines, seemed to wear me down.