Thank You 2020

Grateful for...

• keeping me and my family safe during this pandemic.
• having a job that transitioned to a work from home setup quickly.
• the company I work for for deciding to continue the WFH setup throughout the year. Saved me a lot of time on the road!
• the time to catch up with my blog (in other words, reminisce about past trips):
• finally finished my Kansai Diaries Series, a solo trip I did in autumn of 2016.
• Day 5.5: Tofukuji, Kawai Jinja, Shimogamo Jinja
• Day 6: Ginkakuji, Ryoanji, Ninnaji
• Day 6.75: Gion Night Walking Tour
• Day 7: All Day in Arashiyama
• Day 8: Last Day in Kyoto
• Day 8.75: Dizzying Dotonbori
• Day 9: Osaka, Over and Out
• wrote about my visits to Nagoya, Inuyama, Toyota, Chino and Suwa Cities...a few of the cities days I visited in the Chubu region in autumn of 2017.
• started and finished (woohoo!) my Hokkaido Series, a solo trip I did in the scorching Japanese summer of 2018.
• wrote about the sites I visited in Seoul in autumn of 2018.
• started and finished (double woohoo!) my Taipei 2019 Series.
• published blogposts about Tokyo, just a portion of the Kanto exploration that happened in autumn of 2019.
• Food for the Eyes and Food for the Mouth at Asakusa
• A Day at Ueno Park
• Tokyo Sights Using the Toei 1-Day Pass
• Teamlab Borderless
• Escape to Mount Takao
• I have to work harder though: I still have a lot of backlog!
• more time to read, which prompted me to resurrect the Go Read section of this blog.
• discovering delicious home-cooked food, which inspired me to write QuaranEats Series.
• the readers of this blog...are you still there? :D