Entries by Janna Morishima

Life in Japan, Part I

We always love to visit Japan at New Year’s time. In Japan, New Year’s is like Christmas and Thanksgiving rolled into one: it’s the biggest holiday of the year and the time when the whole family gets together. For New Year’s this year we travelled to Beppu, the small city on Kyushu, Japan’s southern island, […]

Back from Japan!

We returned from our vacation in Japan about a week ago, and we’re still sifting through the hundreds and hundreds of photographs that Kyo took. It was an amazing trip, so it’s hard to choose just a few images to show on the blog. We’re going to post a series of mini photo-essays over the […]

Konnichi-wa, Japan!

An update on our whereabouts: tomorrow morning, we are flying to Japan for a 2 1/2 week trip to visit family. We’ll try to post some pictures while we’re there. In the meantime, have a happy and yummy New Year! See you in 2010….

Kyo’s cross country road trip, starting in Venice, CA

In December I got a chance to do my 2nd cross-country road trip!  The first time I drove cross-country with a friend, we went to Chicago and took the old historic Route 66 all the way to Santa Monica, California. At that time I hadn’t been in the United States for so long, and I was amazed how many different cultures there […]