M&R's Vacation Stories

Phoenix Photo Album May 12 In my quest to visit all the state capitols and also the US’s biggest cities, though I have been to Arizona I have not been to Phoenix. Earlier this year we received a call from a timeshare group who were looking to give us a free weekend somewhere, so we chose Phoenix to be our location of presentation suffereing. We knew and they didn’t know that we definitely were not going to buy a timeshare.  And if you’re in the market, just don’t do it.  Taking an early-ish flight out of Houston we landed in PHX near lunch time and headed to an eatery we found while searching called the Prickly Pear Bistro, it was a hipster-ish type place... you know the type you would image to sell you avocado toast with extra tomatoes.  Food was decent and could have been better if the ratios were better decided. Before we booked this trip, first we were trying to decided when and of course where.  The timeshare people would have been able to accommodate us everywh...

  Photo Album   Day 1 After sitting in a middle seat for 14 hours, I arrived in Tokyo for my two week stay of assisting with another, my 3rd (4th if you don't count my own center), SAP Go-Live. I was able to take the limousine bus, not a limo but really just a bus, from the airport to the hotel. Traffic was bad and it took 2 hours.  I was hungry but too tired to go searching, I just made a decision to crash and fill up tomorrow at breakfast. Even the plane had a bidet Day 2 After waking up a 1am and thinking it was 7am I tossed and tossed some more before actually getting up at 8am and heading downstairs for some breakfast. My coworker Catrina happened to be in town early and was exploring Tokyo's Imperial Palace.  Before I messaged her, I was considering a trip down to a Japanese aquarium or finding something else but luckily for me her idea was better than mine and I just had to figure out how to get back into Tokyo as where I was staying was essentially an hour ou...