This was another brief stopover in Singapore where we hit up the highlights and acclimated to the time change. Surprisingly, JAL upgraded us to business from Narita. The United business flight was nice, but JAL business class steps it up even further with a mattress insert and multi-course sushi. I guess status on United can […]

This was our first trip travelling solo with our niece, who’s now six. Taiwan/Tokyo tested the waters with her parents accompanying. This was just us and Emma. It was primarily a week-long trip to Singapore over her spring break. We did take the opportunity to do a day trip into Puteri Harbor, Malaysia which was…. […]

Getting to Singapore is a bit of a marathon…. Thirty hours transit, including a 7-hour flight AFTER the trans-Pacific flight to Tokyo. All of this had us pretty wiped out when we finally got there. Like many of the flight itineraries originating from the US, our flight had us touching down just after midnight. At […]