2023 – Asia

In theory today should be easy. We’re just trying to get from our Hanoi hotel to our Seoul hotel. There, at 6, we’re to meet the rest of the

My brain has trouble dealing with the seeming paradox of being two time zones closer to the “west coast” (e.g. San Francisco, and such) and

We each emerge from our Hanok (traditional Korean house) into the bright sunshine and blue sky. The air is cool and crisp. It’s 38 degrees now, but

In the morning we luxuriate in our nice hotel rooms for a bit longer, packing, showering, flushing the toilet by merely sitting on it. We get

We stop for a coffee, the first for most of the group today as it isn’t an option at breakfast at the monastery. I reach for my wallet and realize

We’re (mostly) all accounted for at 8am in the lobby. I have my brand new teeshirt that I’d bought from the Cambodian dancers (just to support

When it rains it pours! Well, thankfully it’s not raining, but our dance card for the day is very full. If all goes according to plan, we’ll

For the first time in a long while we’re on our own. It’s a free day in Seoul and our last full day in Korea. We need to switch our hotel

Last night, which was our last night in Seoul, we spent at an enormous hotel with two big towers of rooms. So it’s only fitting that there’s

We wake up to our first full day in Japan and in Tokyo and sure enough it’s raining. It’s our only full day in Tokyo, so we’re a bit sad. We