***Update as of January 2026 this restaurant is closed..Twelve hours later, we arrived in Gatlinburg to a sea of people and the overwhelming smell of weed. It has been 4 years since I was in Tennessee, Gatlinburg specifically, and it no longer feels home. To be fair, it was never home. The Smoky Mountains has…
For someone who doesn’t watch a lot of TV or movies, I seem to have a lot of stories that center around “I saw this in an anime.” Curry is no different. Several years ago when I apparently spent a lot of time binging anime, I fell in love with the idea of curry. I…
The train sounds are what I miss the most. As someone who adores slice of life anime, hearing those train sounds in real life and having them sound exactly like the anime was a surreal experience. I left Japan with a deeper love of anime due to their attention to detail for the small things…
Through the chaos of finding trains and wandering city streets with names we can’t read, we wander through Minato, Japan. I have never visited a “real” city before. Sure, I’ve been to Orlando but I have been told by pretty much everyone that that is not a “real” city. Standing in Minato, I get it….