One of the best travel days I’ve ever had in my life was 5 years ago when I went to a Japanese hot spring town in Japan. It was a few hours north of Tokyo in the mountains where volcanic hot spring water comes out of the ground and hotels (ryokans) have existed since 700 AD catering to traders and samurai who traveled there seeking rest and rejuvenation.

The plan today was to go spend a few hours at the Louvre/Loo-vre museum in between the food places we came across as we wandered the streets.

Overall the flight to Paris was super smooth. Usually on longer haul trips I’ll watch at least two movies but I was busy with working on this blog and learning Japanese for our eventual return to the country (more on this in a separate post).

Sooooo did anyone else experience a once in a generation global pandemic that put life on hold for a chunk of time?

It’s now been over a year since I’ve been declared with No Evidence of Disease (NED)! After my, for lack of a better word “anniversary” I’ve had a lot of things swirling in my head and I’ve been a little hesitant on sitting down and putting them down because I didn’t want to come off as braggadocious, but I think that with everyone that’s supported me and my family up to this point getting a happy update would be nice to share.