Highlight of 2019... Traveling through China/S-Korea/Japan/Thailand with my husband this year was a big leap for us—we bounced from Beijing to Bangkok and all kinds of places in between for about two months, trudging through unreal heat toward some of the greatest historical sites in Asia. I think the traditional villages and zen temples of Kyoto may have been my favorite... here’s one from Kiyomizu-dera Temple. A few days later I came to learn of my “delicate condition,” likely the truest culprit of my mysteriously ferocious case of heat exhaustion that day... #pregnantanddidntknowit #earlypregnancy #heatexhaustion #Kyoto #Japan #japanesepagoda #travelstudy #travel #kiyomizudera