Tag: vacation

I've just gotten back from Las Vegas, after a bit of a relaxing vacation. Mrs. J-List was with me, and ...

I'm done with my little vacation to Australia, which was loads of fun. Australia is certainly an easy place to ...

My wife and I have been having lots of fun this week, making our first visit to Australia for a ...

One nice thing about living in Japan is the rail culture here, so very different from the freeway- and automobile-based ...

I'm back in Japan, after a long and satisfying "vacation" in the U.S. (actually working those conventions is quite a ...

Well, that was a fun weekend. We had a great time at the Twin Peaks Fest, visiting different sites from ...

I'm taking a bit of a vacation with my son, with the two of us traveling to places that are ...

Anime, of course, is rife with fun memes that have emerged over the years, passed from creators to fans and ...

Advertising in Japan is incredibly creative, and I sometimes find myself enjoying the way a message is delivered even though ...

One of my Twitter followers asked me if I had any recommendations for his upcoming trip to Hokkaido, Japan's northernmost ...

I caught an article in Time the other day which presented the case against the long three-month summer vacation in ...

Over the weekend I came across a cool map of old Route 66 in my house in San Diego, and ...

The Japanese certainly do like to dream big and build even bigger, and some of the projects they've come up ...

Spring vacation has come to Japan, and as a parent this means I've got two teenagers under foot for the ...

Tomorrow I'm going on a bit of a vacation to northern Japan with my son, a fun trip that we're ...

My daughter has started junior high school, which is a big step in Japan, a kind of medium point between ...

An era has come to an end in Japan: the "0-Series" Bullet Train, first launched back in 1964, has made ...

Imagine if 25% of all Americans lived around the Washington DC area? It would be pretty crowded, and not very ...

Every summer, we arrange to have our kids spend some time in the U.S. to help them learn English and ...

There are three kinds of employees in Japan: full time, part time, and arubaito (ah-roo-BAI-toh). The last type, the name ...

There was a bizarre Japanese TV show that was on a few years back called OH! Mikey, in which an ...

My family is going through our annual "what are we going to do about summer?" decision-making process, trying to make ...

Spring vacation is finally here, and all through Japan children are getting ready to enjoy a well deserved two week ...

Japan is a great place, and I love living here. The country is beautiful, the culture always new and fascinating, ...