Mike Gfeller | January 18, 2015
I loved everywhere I went in Japan, but I thought I would post my top five favorites in the event anyone is planning a trip. Granted, these are my top five, but I think it would be hard not to enjoy them irrespective of your particular sentiment. 1. Kinkaku-ji, Kyoto, Japan. There is a gravel […]
Mike Gfeller | January 6, 2015
DISCLAIMER: these are our travel tips (Wolfgang and I). They are not meant to be exhaustive. We had never been to Japan before, so these should help you if you are going to Japan for the very first time. 1. A yen is roughly equal to a penny depending of course on the exchange rate. 100 […]
Mike Gfeller | January 3, 2015
We woke up early and packed. Then we met Mark Warchol, a friend of mine from Rotary. A few years ago both Mark and I were in Rotary. He moved to a different club in the Austin area and I left when I needed to focus on completing my MBA. Mark is an engineer and […]
Mike Gfeller | January 3, 2015
There is so much I’ve forgotten since I started posting. I waited too long to finish and the details are what makes these blogs somewhat interesting, or so I’ve been told. I’ll give it a try anyway. Today was going to be our last full day in Tokyo. I didn’t sleep any better. I watched […]
Mike Gfeller | January 3, 2015
Anticipation. Attitude. Pace. These are just some of the traits provided by friends of mine when I asked them what conditions are present for them to tip. I am really trying to deconstruct the entire tipping experience to determine one simple answer: under what conditions, if any, would it be acceptable to tip a robot? […]