Surf's Up!

For my 30th bday present to myself, I booked a one-week surf vacation in Bali!! A full week of tropical weather, soft sand, warm water, surfing, paddleboarding, Indonesian food, massages, monkey sightings and maybe a little bit of cultural tourism in paradise...so so so so so excited!

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Tokyo, and perhaps Asia in general, is a place you live during the week, but leave during the weekend. Pretty much every ex-pat I have met here leaves the city at least one weekend a month to jet off to HK, Seoul, Shanghai, Phuket, London, NY, LA, SF, Hawaii, Guam or any number of other places. It's a fabulous, fabulous lifestyle. One friend told me in the last year she has been home to Canada 3X, Seoul 6X, London 2X, NY 2X, Phuket 2X, as well as all over Japan including Kamakura, Hokkaido, Nagano, Sapporo (it helps that in addition to the 15 national holidays, she gets SIX weeks of vacay - man, really need to find a job with a European company).