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Author Archives: Todd
Asahikawa: The Land of Traffic Lights
I swear this city has a traffic light every 87 feet, no matter which direction you travel. Google will show traffic as orange when you are the only car on the road due to having to stop at a traffic … Continue reading
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Sapporo: A Land of Zoos and Shopping
We got to Sapporo and found our AirBnB. It reminds me of a New York City apartment with sliding walls to create a second bedroom in the living room and a third bed just hanging out in the living room. … Continue reading
Rusutsu: A Want to Be Las Vegas Ski Resort?
After Hakodate, Sapporo was the next spot that we wanted to visit. Our options were a taxi to the train station and then taking a 3.5 hour train, a taxi to the airport and a 30 minute flight to the … Continue reading
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Hakodate: Yummy seafood and Tiny Amusement Park
We arrived in Hakodate, and two of our bags were some of the first of the plane. Then we had the pleasure of waiting as almost everyone else’s bags came off the plane (wide body with free checked bags) and … Continue reading
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Okinawa: The Land of Humidity and Typhoons
Guys, we made it to Okinawa. That might not seem like a big feat, but we had a touch of user error in our travel day leaving the US. We spent two nights with Tristan and Lemac, hanging out in … Continue reading
Trip over view and randoms 2025
List of Items Lost and Forgotten Todd’s belt: forgotten, new one purchase in Miami Katy’s sandals: lost in Miami, not replaced Children’s toothpaste and toothbrushes: left in Qatar, replaced in Baku Archer’s replacement toothbrush: lost in Tbilisi, replaced in Akhaltsikhe … Continue reading
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Yerevan
It was raining. We got breakfast, went to the grocery store, and went to go to the museum of illusions, but it turned out that all the guides were busy with a school group so we couldn’t go in. We … Continue reading
Dilijan
(This is published a year after the fact when I found it in drafts. No proof reading) We took a “GG” (read Uber” from Gyumri to the mountain tourist town of Dilijan. It is a weekend destination from Yerevan and … Continue reading
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Gyumri, Armenia: The Land of Water Fountains
Rose and I went down to breakfast because Archer was still sleeping at 8 o’clock, and Katy was still upstairs. The last couple breakfasts the kids didn’t do a great job eating, but it turns out if you separate them … Continue reading
Akhaltsikhe:
Our next stop is Akhaltsikhe, a town that according to two people who I inquired about rides said that staying 3 nights there was a terrible idea. We didn’t listen.
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Far Flung Forays 