A view into the life of Jay, Christy, Luke and Ryan as we travel around the world! The original Orriscope was an editorial written by Jay's grandfather when he owned and edited the Grand Forks Gazette in British Columbia.
The first foreign port of our Semester at Sea voyage is behind us. Nineteen days after our departure from Encinitas, Mexico we arrived in Kobe, Japan. With a day in Hawaii and a day that didn’t exist due to the vagaries of crossing the International Date Line, we had 17 days at sea and will write about that nautical…
JAPAN – A TALE OF TWO TRIPS Christy Skiing in Niseko, Japan has been on my sister Kerri’s bucket list for years. When I told her I was going to be in Japan in January, she immediately agreed to fly over and join me for an adventure. Niseko is on Japan’s northern island, Hokkaido, just south…
Well, we have left the final foreign port on our voyage around the world. We now have 10 days at sea to look forward to as we cross the Pacific to Hawaii. We spent our last five days in Japan, porting first in Yokohama (outside Tokyo) and then in Kobe. Jay had been looking forward…