Day #15-18, Tokyo
Posted in Japan on Jun 7th, 2018
This is just a placeholder for the posts that I’m missing from Tokyo, which includes our visit to Tokyo Disney Resort and our final two days exploring the city before flying home.
Our quest to visit 7 continents, 100 countries, and all 50 states…
Posted in Japan on Jun 7th, 2018
This is just a placeholder for the posts that I’m missing from Tokyo, which includes our visit to Tokyo Disney Resort and our final two days exploring the city before flying home.
Posted in Japan on Jun 6th, 2018
After our late arrival, we slept in this morning until around 9am. We had breakfast at the hotel’s restaurant (Lavarock) using the conveniently provided vouchers for free breakfast thanks to my Marriott status. It’s a surprisingly good breakfast buffet w/ my personal favorites being the Asian specialities (steamed buns, dumplings, etc.) and delicious array of […]
This was really just a travel day with a departure from Dubai at 8:30am on an Emirates Boeing 777-200LR, arriving in Tokyo-Haneda around 10:30pm. Here’s our precise route as flown during the 9:20 flight: A few items of interest… We flew over the western end of the Himalayas. Since it was day time, nice weather, […]
Posted in Dubai, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah, Umm al-Quwain on Jun 4th, 2018
We started our day early–as I’m sure most folks do–at 7:30am with a camel ride. If I’m honest, the experience was both kind of thrilling and mildly terrifying. Camels, as you can see, are in fact very tall animals. They also kind of lumber when they walk… at least that’s the sensation from atop. It’s […]
Posted in Ajman, Dubai, Fujairah, Ras al-Khaimah, Sharjah on Jun 3rd, 2018
This morning we checked out of our hotel in Dubai and drove to Ras Al Khaimah via a slightly longer route than needed in order to visit the emirates of Fujairah and Ajman, as well as Sharjah (boosting Emerson’s country count). Our destination was the Ritz-Carlton Al Wadi Desert Resort, which I picked because we […]