Like I stated in yesterday’s blog our goal was to start the hike at 3am. We arose at 2:30am as planned and were out the door a little after 2:50am. We dropped our luggage in the car, and were to the trailhead right around 3:05am. We were very proud of ourselves for actually getting there…

Today was a bit more driving than the previous day as we were heading from Magome to the 5th Station of Mt.Fuji. Total trip time straight through was roughly 4.5 hours, but we decided we wanted to see some items along the way.  We decided to wake up early, well pretty much when we had…

Good morning! We (John, Laura, and I) woke up around 6am and went for a walk around town. We walked around 1.5-2 miles before we headed back to the hotel for breakfast. Breakfast was standardized and was at 7:30AM for everyone.  When we arrived to breakfast it was all already set out. Once we sat…

Day 5: Choose Your Own Adventure We had been exploring Kyoto for about two days, so we decided this morning was a bit of a choose your own adventure depending on what parts of the city each person wanted to see more of. Chatting with Laura and John we decided since we were so close…

Day 4: Full Day Kyoto Good morning! Today we woke up around 6am to get going and beat some of the crowds to the touristy areas of Kyoto. We ended up leaving around the Airbnb around 6:30am and attempted to go to a breakfast place Nick had found. We showed up, but were turned away…