If you read my recent Tokyo travel post, you know my partner and I followed Japan’s famous Golden Route. After a few days in Tokyo, we hopped on the iconic Shinkansen and made our way to Osaka, our home base for the next leg of our adventure. Why take the Shinkansen? The Shinkansen is Japan’s bullet […]
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As international travel finally opened up in late 2023, my husband and I began dreaming about where we should wander for our first big post-pandemic trip. Europe was calling my name (I’ve missed it ever since 2016!), but a half-joke with my brother about buying a vintage watch in Japan suddenly turned into a very
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As I immersed myself in yoga in the mid-2010s, I began to encounter ads for international yoga retreats. I’d had a handful of solo travels by then and wondered what a vacation would be like if there was some intended sesh aspect to it. My one concern about booking a yoga retreat is not being