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The Travel Oracle
  • Who is the Travel Oracle?
    • The places we’ve been
    • The Oracle Recommends…
    • Travel Booking Services
    • Contact us for House and Pet Sitting
  • Our World Famous Kidney Donor Athlete
    • Running Stories
  • Subscribe
  • Who is the Travel Oracle?
    • The places we’ve been
    • The Oracle Recommends…
    • Travel Booking Services
    • Contact us for House and Pet Sitting
  • Our World Famous Kidney Donor Athlete
    • Running Stories
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  • Red faced snow monkey in a hot spring

    Hanging out with the Snow Monkeys

    Since we have a little down time between our adventures to London and Big Sur, we thought we’d go back and share a little more about our time in Japan. This week, let’s talk about our stay at a traditional hot spring hotel and hanging out with the snow monkeys in Yudanaka. Faster than a Speeding Bullet? Turns out that a bullet train is NOT faster than a speeding bullet. (Actually I just looked it up and they only go about a tenth of the speed.) BUT taking the bullet train from Tokyo to Nagano was rather posh and the views of Fuji-san couldn’t be beat. The Onsen Ryokan (Hot…

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