Archive for May 2025

Fancy Rooms & Red Lights

May 15, 2025 - 9:21 pm No Comments

The planning continues. It took some patience with surprisingly clunky and poorly translated Japanese websites, but all of our accommodations for the trip are booked!

As expected, Dave opted for the bougiest hotels he could find for our big city stays, and he’s really outdone himself. The two-bedroom suite we’ll be sharing in the Bellustar Tokyo looks exquisite, and the Four Seasons Kyoto is just as nice. He’s also booked the W Osaka, which is as beautiful as you’d expect any W property to be. (more…)

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Tweaks to the Japan Itinerary

May 11, 2025 - 1:29 pm No Comments

Flights are booked! Now it’s time to hammer out all the details.

ChatGPT has helped us fine-tune the itinerary for our 2 1/2 weeks in Japan, with a focus on making our route and even daily schedule as efficient as possible. This is… too easy. And all the planning culminates in the most beautiful nerdgasm when it’s neatly laid out in a properly formatted Google doc. Dave teases me about my love affair with AI and Google docs, but that’s OK. It really is a magical combination for trip planning. (more…)

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