20 Feb 2020
Duration:
02/05/2020 - 02/15/2020
Destinations:
Fukuoka (福岡) - Hita (日田) - Beppu (別府) - Kitsuki (杵築) - Bungotakada (豊後高田) - Usa (宇佐) - Yufuin (由布院) - Kurokawa (黒川温泉) - Aso (阿蘇) - Takachiho (高千穂) - Hyuga (日向) - Miyazaki (宮崎) - Nichinan (日南) - Kirishima (霧島) - Kagoshima (鹿児島) - Ibusuki (指宿) - Kumamoto (熊本)
Planning
For this trip, I booked two return award tickets from Boston to Fukuoka for my wife and myself - one booked with Marriot Bonvoy points (transfered [...Click title to read entire post]
15 Dec 2019
Duration:
11/24/2019 - 12/07/2019
Destinations:
Barcelona - Tarragona - Peñíscola - València - Cuenca - Toledo - Consuegra - Granada - Nerja - Malaga - Estepona - Casares - Seville - Barcelona
Planning
I wanted to start the trip from Barcelona, the famous capital of Catalonia, and drove all the way down to Costa del Sol, a coastal region in southern Andalucía. There is only one direct flight from Boston to Barcelona - IB2626 A330-200 operated by Level Air (6 hrs flight). For lodging, we chose the famous paradores in most cities / [...Click title to read entire post]
11 Jul 2019
When I went to Sapporo in 2015 for the first time, I visited Moerenuma Park and fell in love with it immediately. Since then, the park’s architect, Isamu Noguchi (1904–1988), has become one of my favorite.
I began to search Noguchi’s other works and was happy to find that he had a dedicated museum (or the Isamu Noguchi foundation, some call it) in Queens, New York. So we decided to pay it a visit on a warm July day, and below are some photos of Noguchi’s sculpture works I took. You can find the entire list of [...Click title to read entire post]
