Day 111: Goodbye Yokohama
April 25, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 19 °C
It’s official! We were coming back home!!! On the ship!
Day 113: Aomori
April 27, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 14 °C
First port! Still in Japan! We stopped at a city called Aomori! We have a day to explore the city. Just next to the cruise pier, there is a culture museum! They invited for a traditional tea ceremonyRead more
Day 113: Nebuta House Wa Rasse
April 27, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 16 °C
Aomori Nebuta and Hirosaki Neputa festivals are the 2 popular festivals in Aomori every summer. With live music and energetic shouting, the bright-colored Nebuta floats parade through the streets asRead more
Day 113: Aomori Spring Festival
April 27, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C
On the same day on the street, there was the Aomori Spring Festival. It was truly amazing! The citizens were holding large flags and they were dancing and singing on the street to celebrate the comingRead more
Day 114: Hakodate
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C
More north we went!!! We arrived at the south of Hokkaido, a city called Hakodate. We spent a full day here tour around.
Day 114: Laundry time first!!
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C
When we first got off the boat, it’s laundry time!! This was the last port before we went non-stop to North America. So we have to find a laundromat to do laundry to save money. What a budgetRead more
Day 114: city center of Hakodate
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 10 °C
Street Tram is a thing in Hakodate!
Day 114: Cape Tachimachi
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ ☁️ 11 °C
A cape located at the southeastern end of Mt. Hakodate. Very nice view around the area.
Day 114: On the way to Mt. Hakodate
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 10 °C
We decided to do a hike to the Mount Hakodate. Most people will take the cable car. But we would like some exercise. But we kind of got lost a little bit, but all’s good. Just wander around is nice.
Day 114: Mt. Hakodate
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 9 °C
The famous Mt. Hakodate! But most people will come for the night view haha it’s all good, we were here now! Let’s enjoy the view.
Day 114: Bye Mt. Hakodate
April 28, 2025 in Japan ⋅ 🌬 9 °C
We made our way back to the cruise terminal. On the way, we passed through different European style buildings. But we did not have much time to stop by. Walking in the area was amazing!
Day 115-123: Life on the ship!
May 7, 2025, Bering Sea ⋅ ☁️ 4 °C
9 days of non-stop sea day! Seattle we are coming!! We had a great time on the boat. A lot of food, entertainment, activities and people! But we are looking forward to touching land again!
Day 124: Hello Seattle!
May 8, 2025 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 11 °C
Finally close to home! We arrived Seattle! We did not tour around Seattle as Chris was sick. We could stay on the ship for one more night at Seattle. Tomorrow, we would disembark and head toRead more
Day 125: Seattle bus station
May 9, 2025 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 10 °C
We were just passing through Seattle! Heading to Vancouver directly!!!
Day 125-127: Welcome back home!!
May 11, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 16 °C
Finally in Canada! Closer and closer to our home! But first a brief visit in Vancouver and planned to spend a weekend in Squamish to visit our friend!
Day 128: VIA Rail (Day 1)
May 12, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 19 °C
Day 1 was pretty uneventful. We settled ourself down, getting comfy for the 4-day journey!
Day 128: Van Pacific Central Station
May 12, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 18 °C
Today was the day to start our 4-day VIA train journey from Vancouver to Toronto! We stayed in a seat for 4 days!! Let’s see how we survived!!!
Day 128: VIA Rail (Day 2) - Kamloops
May 13, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 11 °C
Passing through Kamloops at night, but it was late! So there’s not much to do.
Day 128: VIA Rail (Day 2)
May 13, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C
We were heading into Jasper! The scenery on the way was magnificent! We have a little bit of time to walk around Jasper train station.
Day 129: VIA Rail (Day 3)
May 14, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ⛅ 6 °C
Edmonton/ Saskatoon! All the epic scenery was on Day 2, going forward it was just passing through different cities. But the glass-dome car on the train was pretty cool. We spent some time there on &Read more
Day 129: VIA Rail (Day 3) - Winniepeg
May 14, 2025 in Canada ⋅ 🌙 15 °C
Winniepeg at night!!! One more day and we will be in Toronto!!
Day 130: VIA Rail (Day 4) & we made it!
May 16, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
Finally here!!! Toronto Union Station! 1.5 years we started our bus ride here to New York!! And now, we were back and completed a full circle ⭕️
Mission accomplished!!!
Day 130: The end of chapter 2
May 16, 2025 in Canada ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
The circle is officially completed when we arrived back in Guelph!
We carried our backpacks from Guelph and now we took our backpacks back to Guelph! This chapter is officially ended here! But weRead more
