Hello friends, family, and everybody else.
I just wanted to take a quick second to update this blog and mention some of the things that have been going on.
First of all, as of today, we’re still in Tokyo, Japan. Specifically Koto-ku, which means, I think, the Koto ward of Tokyo.
Anyway, we’ve done quite a bit recently:
- We’ve gone to a bunch of different incredibly beautiful parks
- We had Ramen at 5 or so different ramen places
- We’ve gone to a bunch of different grocery stores and tried a bunch of different foods
- We’ve met new friends (various meetup groups, including a group from reddit of all places!)
- We went to an amazingly beautiful sake brewery
- We’ve tried a bunch of different sakes
- We’ve walked down a ton of small side streets that are amazingly cool because there is just tons of stuff everywhere
- We’ve gone to a bunch of museums, including most recently the Studio Ghibli museum, but also the Edo museum
- We’ve gone to a sashiko meetup group (Lindsay) and a meetup to learn about crochet
- I gave a small talk at a design meetup about my morse code project
- More stuff
Anyway, we’ve been both busy and not busy. We’ve been in Tokyo now for just about a month, staying in the same place the entire time. It’s strange, it’s starting to feel less like traveling and more like living. We “go home” at night. We know how to walk to various places of import. We have a grocery store we go to, and we recognize/are recognized by the people that work there. We honestly don’t do that many exciting thngs, we just walk a lot, exploring new side streets, trying different buns with different types of fillings, always on the lookout for sushi at grocery stores that we think is half off. We are getting pretty good at recognizing “half off” as apposed to “20% off” – not as easy as you might think!
Tomorrow we are going to Maker Faire Tokyo, which I’m pretty excited about. I’m hoping to get some sweet stickers, and perhaps see some cool things that you can’t see at the Bay Area Maker Faire. Maker’s Faire. Whatev. This has been something I’ve been excited about for a while, so, awesome!
Anyway, the title of the blog post. Lindsay and I are planning out the next bits of our trip here and there is just so much stuff that we don’t know! It’s crazy! It’s easy enough to be jobless, traveling around to various awesome places, but when you are on a budget and trying to save money every step of the way, trying to optimize your spending, there is a lot to consider!
Currently, our plan is as follows:
- Go to Istanbul, Turkey for 2-3 weeks
- Go to Greece for a few days or a week or so (?)
- Go to Hungary (?) for a week or so (?)
- Go to France or Germany…
- Go to other places
- …
The thing is, when you are trying to save money on everything, little things matter. Like, which city should we fly into France? How should we get from X city to Y city? Do we need to buy Z in advanced to make sure we are eligible for the X pass? Does the temperature in Y city during X dates mean we’ll be unable to do Z, and so perhaps we should instead fly into W?
Anyway, it’s a lot to consider. At the end of the day, we’re basically just sort of going with the flow and honestly not putting all that much thought into things, but that drives me crazy sometimes because I feel so unprepared! Oh well.
Anyway, happy weekend all!