Grateful for...
- keeping me and my family safe during this pandemic.
- having a job that transitioned to a work from home setup quickly.
- the company I work for for deciding to continue the WFH setup throughout the year. Saved me a lot of time on the road!
- the time to catch up with my blog (in other words, reminisce about past trips):
- finally finished my Kansai Diaries Series, a solo trip I did in autumn of 2016.
- Day 5.5: Tofukuji, Kawai Jinja, Shimogamo Jinja
- Day 6: Ginkakuji, Ryoanji, Ninnaji
- Day 6.75: Gion Night Walking Tour
- Day 7: All Day in Arashiyama
- Day 8: Last Day in Kyoto
- Day 8.75: Dizzying Dotonbori
- Day 9: Osaka, Over and Out
- wrote about my visits to Nagoya, Inuyama, Toyota, Chino and Suwa Cities...some of the cities I visited in the Chubu region of Japan in autumn of 2017.
- started and finished (woohoo!) my Hokkaido Series, a solo trip I did in the scorching Japanese summer of 2018.
- wrote about the sites I visited in Seoul in autumn of 2018.
- started and finished (double woohoo!) my Taipei 2019 Series.
- published blogposts about Tokyo, just a portion of the Kanto exploration that happened in autumn of 2019.
- Food for the Eyes and Food for the Mouth at Asakusa
- A Day at Ueno Park
- Tokyo Sights Using the Toei 1-Day Pass
- Teamlab Borderless
- Escape to Mount Takao
- I have to work harder though: I still have a lot of backlog!
- more time to read, which prompted me to resurrect the Go Read section of this blog.
- discovering delicious home-cooked food, which inspired me to write QuaranEats Series.
- the readers of this blog...are you still there? :D