Reflections of parents of not-so-young-kids-anymore
While planning for our year end trip this December again to Japan, the wife mused that next year, we really should be going to other places. I was a little amused by that: there’s so much left to still see
My first post-pandemic overseas work trip, and a fairly long one at that even: 14 days in Japan and the cities of Fukuoka, Matsue, and Osaka. Given the length of this trip, I didn’t apply for extensions before or after
It’s been a while since I’ve had an Android tablet: i.e. four years. An early generation Asus Transformer TF101 tablet that the missus bought for me on a birthday more than ten years ago, followed by the Motorola Xoom 2,
The five year old Thule Subterra 30L backpack has fared up very well: it’s been my daily bag that I use at work, and also dual purpose as my carry-on backpack when I fly, and even when I’m touring. However,
I’ve never really been a bag person. As in, while I do occasionally develop the sudden intense interest to look closely at what’s available over the course of a week, bookmark several web sites, watch probably hundreds of videos on
Our planning for our usual family year-end vacation spot started months ago in March: I had an indicative period of travel that would span just over two weeks, and wrote up two general itineraries for travel to Japan: one for
This was our first trip to Vietnam, and we count our blessings that the our ten day vacation there was largely accident and incident free. None of us got food poisoning – vs when I came down with that in
The first of the last two posts in this series covering our ten day trip in Hanoi: about the image and video capturing experience of the trip. Our last trip to Japan in December last year saw me bringing a
This was the first time I’ve flown a drone overseas, so, well, lots of anxiety! But the experience turned out to be pretty good, due in large part to the mostly good weather we had, and also the sheer performance
All things considered and comparing with our itineraries to other places, e.g. Japan and Taiwan, we kept our itinerary for our 10D9N in Hanoi comparatively light. This was largely because we were uncertain of our ability to safely navigate Hanoi
The hotel we stayed at during our 10 day vacation in Hanoi was San Grand Hotel, and would had been the longest stay yet for our family vacations… were it not for the fact that of the nine nights in
Our flight today on Day 10 is only departing at 6PM. But while there’s plenty of time from now till then, we decided to keep it really easy and just enjoy the hotel rooms on this last day, and check
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