Travel

FALLS CHURCH, Va. — Whether snorkeling, hiking, or exploring a new place, travelers should know how to stay safe and healthy while away from home. Properly preparing for a trip can help reduce health risks.

July   WHALE-STRAIT TOKASHIKI MATSURI: July 27-28, 6-9 p.m.; 300 fireworks display along with taiko, eisa and live music performances at Tokashiki Elementary/Middle School playground; three-minute walk from Tokashiki Port (no parking lot); 098-987-2430. 

Shota, Shota, are you okay? Shota!”
 
It was a beautiful Saturday evening. Laughter and chatter fill the night skies on the beach overlooking the Philippine sea. Shota is soaked by a wave of friendship, in the form of people in the teens, twenties, thirties, and forties. People that Shota normally don’t see.

Get ready, Okinawa, women’s pro-wrestling is coming to the island.
 
The OZ Academy Joshi Pro-wrestling will put on its 20th anniversary show July 15.

Take a ride down Soba Road
There is a road in Motobu Town nicknamed “Soba Kaido,” or “Soba Road,” for good reason.
There are more than 70 Okinawa soba restaurants dotting a stretch of Izumi Kaido (Road), the main country road on Route 84 from Biimata in Nago to Motobu’s western fishing port.

I won’t lie, I have never put much thought into my “travel style” until my fabulous blogger friend Angie from Silverspoon London tagged me in her recent post describing the things that characterize her travel style.