Eating, Meeting, Mighty, Money

I went to Japan to see my family in May.   I left Japan 20 years ago.  The price of the food is really affordable if you choose. For breakfast, I had rice, miso soup, salmon, and pickles set for only 500 yen or so, I bought a ticket at the machine and gave it to the lady who works by herself cooking, serving, clean up, doing everything! There were at least 8 customers including me. She was working hard. at 8:00 AM it was the peak time serving for guys before going to work. After everybody left, I told her, "You were doing all by yourself, what a hard worker you are!"  I didn't take a picture of the food. Too bad. On the other hand, expensive food like this one a cake for 780 yen 810 yen with tax exists. It was good though. Potato cake (heavy and filled me up)  I stayed at Shizuoka where Mt. Fuji is, and also my family. In Tokyo, I stayed at Shin Okubo (near Shinjuku). This area is a Korean town in Tokyo. I booked at booking.com the rat...

Sedona in Arizona is very popular among spiritual people. It's very popular among Japanese. Since I heard of Sedona, I wanted to go there for a long time but didn't because of the long drive, 7 hours drive from Los Angeles! Sedona is famous for Vortex. I wanted feel the Vortex, and wondering what is vortex. I don't know if I felt it or not, I really liked  the view of Sedona red rocks and hiking. There are 4 vortex spot in Sedona. 1) Airport Mesa This place was near we stayed. Very easy to hike up, the parking was full always. 2) Cathedral Rock (Picture from the Airport Mesa) Don't use map app on your iPhone! We drove to wrong place for the trail head. I saw somebody was also got  wrong way using the app. Easy up to the middle, harder to the top. My 4 year old (then) daughter couldn't make it but My son (9 then) and I went up half way to the top. My husband stayed with our daughter. 3) Bell Rock We couldn't go this time, since I read a ...