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MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 2 – October 15 2024 Last night, I (Jessica) got only 4 hours of sleep, even after only getting 5 the night before the flight and being up for 26 hours. It wasn’t the best start to the day, especially because my body typically needs a consistent […]

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Tokyo Trip Day 1 – October 14 2024 Overall, the travel experience getting into Tokyo was one of the easiest we have experienced for international trips. Other than an hour delay on our first flight making the connection a bit tighter than we would have liked, everything was smooth and

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Oregon Coast Trip August 2024 For Nix’s and my birthday, we took a week off work to travel the Oregon Coast! We were hoping for tiny beach towns, great seafood for Mike, rugged coastline views, and some fun for Nix and the trip did not dissapoint! Working our way from

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip About our trip to the Netherlands and West Germany We wanted the transportation part of this trip to be easier than the last- using trains to get around instead of having to drive and being able to get to both destinations by train instead of

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 11 – December 11 2023 Our last day of the trip!! I (Jess) have been looking forward to this day trip a lot. And after we were a bit let down by having to skip numerous experiences on this trip, there were some high

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 10 – December 10 2023 It was time to move – again! We packed up and took a direct, 3.50-hour train to Frankfurt. Instead of hrabbing breakfast on the way, we figured we would get some snacks at the train station. They had a

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 9 – December 9 2023 Written by Mike: Today was our last full day in Dortmund. Unfortunately we still weren’t feeling 100%, so we took the morning slowly. We originally planned to visit Essen today to see their “International Christmas Market.” We even started

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 8 – December 8 2023 This will be a boring post because it was a boring day. Unfortunately, the run-down-ness we had been feeling was actually a small head cold. Mike’s peaked yesterday and mine did last night. Nothing bad, just some congestion and

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 7 – December 7 2023 What a crazy day today was. We had decided to have a down day and relax in Dusseldorf to recoup. We liked the city more than we expected to, since it is such a new city (having to be

MIKE AND JESS’ TRAVEL DIARY Netherlands and West Germany Trip Day 6 – December 6 2023 We had a late start to the day, but Mike still had not slept well. Our easiest day trip from Dusseldorf was Aachen, an old town that originally was a Roman Settlement, later became the residence of Emperor Charlemagne.