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2024年5月

Trips
  • 2024-05-10

Washington 2024, Grandma’s House

The upper edge of the Pacific Northwest What makes a vacation? If you do a google image search, the imagery hovers around resorts, beaches, and drinks with little umbrellas. Of course, a vacation should always be an escape from your normal, a break in routine, unless you drink on the beach regularly. We indeed think of luxury and leisure to achieve that break in routine, but a vacation can still be a little rugged, and filled with simple pleasures you might not find on that google search. The Pacific Northwest conjures thoughts of wood-burning stoves, tall, dense greenery, and the relaxed appeal of a slow-moving mountain town. It’s not your typical vision of a luxury vacation, but our trip here certainly felt like one, and […]

Trips
  • 2024-05-10

The Sonoran desert, even further south than San Diego

Arizona is the hot cool state next to Cali I have always considered San Diego the southern tip of America, and that’s kind of the angle I take when I tell people in Japan about where I’m from: “You can be in Mexico in under an hour!” But actually, if you look at a map, heading east from California, the US border slopes downward to the south, and parts of Arizona, New Mexico, and especially Texas dip way down into a climate and landscape I had always associated with Mexico. Even travel in your own country can broaden your perspective… Tucson, Arizona,where you’ll find the most iconic cactus in the world: the Saguaro. Surrounded by these towering cacti, you’ll find a hostile environment that can […]