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We're an American/Australian couple currently living in Tokyo, Japan (why not?). If this gives you the impression that we like travel and adventure, you're right. Click here for more on travel, our style.

Travel in 2008 has included the South Island of New Zealand (where we helped a friend track down his gold mining ancestors), Xian and Dunhuang in China, and southeastern Spain (with a one day excursion into Portuguese wine country!).

Vicki Lynn Beyer is originally from Omaha, Nebraska. She spent her early years on small farms just outside of Omaha. That early experience probably made it easy for her to adjust during her first international experience--a summer in Kabul, Afghanistan in 1978. It probably contributed to her adaptability over modes of transport, as exhibited here.

Over the last 30 years Vicki has divided her time between Japan, Australia and the U.S. She holds passports from two of these three countries. Can you guess which two?

Vicki has degrees from the University of Nebraska at Omaha, the University of Washington Jackson School of International Studies, the University of Washington School of Law and Bond University School of Law. She's also admitted as a lawyer in the State of Washington. For 10 years she worked as a legal academic/academic administrator. She’s currently the regional employment counsel for a U.S. multinational company and is based in Tokyo.

Vicki works hard, but she tries to have fun, too. Her stay-at-home hobbies are reading, cooking, and sewing. These days she focuses on making garments from vintage kimonos that she’s picked up at various flea markets across Tokyo. She has her own label: Vickimono.

Travel has become both a hobby and a vocation for Vicki, as she has begun free lance travel writing. She’s recently published her first travel book, a guidebook to Kamakura entitled “10 Temples on Two Wheels: Exploring Kamakura by bicycle or on foot”.

John Charles Napier Adams is originally from Wagga Wagga, New South Wales. He shares his birthday with John Quincy Adams, an American colonial renowned for his politically-connected family and a few achievements in his own right (like being President and later arguing the Amistad case before the U.S. Supreme Court!).

The contemporary John Adams is a graduate of the Riverina College of Advanced Education, which is now known as Charles Sturt University. He also has a certificate in traditional Chinese medicine from the Tokyo branch of the Beijing University of Traditional Chinese Medicine. Over the years he's been everything from accountant to radio announcer to dishwasher to school teacher. These days he divides his time between Japan and Australia, where he manages a small real estate portfolio.

John's a renaissance man with wide and varied interests, including photography, travel, and motorcycling. He has motorcycled and skied on 4 continents and is the photographer for Vicki’s guidebook to Kamakura. In this photo, he’s shooting the ancient Chinese wall in the Taklamakan Desert in northwestern China.

Traditional Chinese Medicine | Motorcycling | Motorcycle Touring
Travel | 10 Temples on Two Wheels

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