Catch Us if You Can

Good morning! I get to write about a lot of fun things that we did today, but first I want to make sure I don’t forget to mention a weird quirk: if you’re ever in the mountains around Nagano, bring your own soap. I have no idea why, but many public bathrooms don’t have hand…

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Good morning! Another jam packed day today, this time in the very picturesque town of Nozawa. I really can’t oversell how gorgeous this place is. It’s a bit more remote feeling than Hakuba, mainly because you’ve got to take a train and bus to get here. We thought it would be fun to visit a…

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Hello everyone! Let’s just start things out by saying that I woke up at 3am… and didn’t go back to sleep. So that’s where we are today. Jam packed day today, with mountains, mishaps, and miso! Overall not too bad. We started out today knowing that our little group would be splitting up. Jimmy and…

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Hello! Welcome to our first full day in Japan, which was mostly a travel day. We got up early to catch a limited express train from Shinjuku station in Tokyo to Hakuba station up in the mountains near Nagano. The reason why we chose to come to Japan in the middle of winter was because…

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Today we woke up the soothing pitter patter of rain on the windows. We had a good run. We made it this far in a December trip to Europe with no rain, so we really can’t complain. When we headed outside we found that our Airbnb host had left a little gift for us outside…

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Hello, hello. After a long day and late night (for me) in Budapest, something amazing happened. For the first time in remembered history, I slept in later than Jimmy. It was weird. To be fair, I still woke up at 8:30, because I’m me and can’t really ever sleep in too late, but that was…

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