In June 2019 I flew to Nashville for a weekend to celebrate one of my high school besties bachelorette party! It had been so long since I had seen my friends, probably around 3 years since we're all living all over the place. It was truly too quick of a trip. Nonetheless, we had so much fun exploring every corner of the famous Broadway Street (seriously we w[...]
Back in May 2019, we road tripped to Iowa to see my sister-in-law graduate from college and also visited my aunt who lives in Des Moines. Afterward, we drove to Chicago with my inlaws for two days of exploring the windy city! We stayed in the cutest Airbnb (that you can see on my Instagram highlight), and on our first day, we explored the Lincoln Park area.[...]
Back in May 2019, we road tripped to Iowa to see my sister-in-law graduate from college and also visited my aunt who lives in Des Moines. Afterward, we drove to Chicago with my inlaws for two days of exploring the windy city! We stayed in the cutest AirBnb (that you can see on my Instagram highlight), and on our first day, we explored the Lincoln Park area.[...]
It's been forever (2 years) since I published the first post on the Little Island Takara Guide to Okinawa and I have a few more posts in mind for the guide, but my never-ending travel posts to catch up on, our move to North Carolina, my homesickness for Okinawa and now COVID-19 has put a little damper on my writing. I wrote this PCS guide for the 2020 Spring[...]
In March of last year, we had tickets to see Mumford & Sons live (seriously one of our favorite bands) at the PNC Arena. We drove 2 hours to Raleigh and had an awesome little weekend getaway. We stayed right in downtown Raleigh at the Holiday Inn, visited the North Carolina Museum of Art, rented some scooters, and explored downtown a bit more. We ende[...]
On our last full day in D.C., we met with our friend Nano for ramen at Daikaya in Chinatown! We really enjoyed exploring this neighborhood, even though it was smaller than we expected. Afterward, we headed to the Eastern Market neighborhood where we explored the market a bit, stopped by the famous Capitol Hill book store and took more photos of the beautiful[...]