Having spent 30 days so far in Japan (and 40 days total), what does our time in Japan actually look like?

A week in Kansai, moving between what felt like different worlds in Kinosaki, Kyoto, and Osaka, and getting a taste of what kuidaore really means.

Two nights in Karuizawa, and six in Hokkaido, finding some breathing room and a different, wilder side of Japan.

A week in Tokyo, exploring tiny slivers of a city—a charcoal smoke-filled izakaya, a local canteen—that seems like it would demand lifetimes to even begin to know.

Four nights in the Seychelles for a “much-needed” beach vacation, for which Alice has a very different concept of than the rest of the world.

Four days driving around the incomprehensibly vast plains of the Serengeti, taking in soft golden sunrises, vivid purple sunsets, and the inevitability of life.