A Fukushima Refugee Tale
One thing that was interesting in Kanazawa is when we got to meet with a Fukushima refugee couple. They currently live in Kanazawa and have a restaurant where we had lunch. (It was a vegan restaurant. I’m probably the only…
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Mentally, All Our Bags Are Packed
Wow, the time has flown by! Too busy doing the tour to take time to blog. It can’t be helped. It seems to be that every time we travel, I am forced to blog about the trip mostly after we…
Tokyo, Hakone, and the Hikikomori. Beauty and Sadness (beneath the covers)
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already experienced half of our tour of Japan! I tried to approach this trip with an open mind. Although I had been to Japan some years ago on business, I didn’t really see anything…
Gomen’nasai!
That’s Japanese for “sorry!” I left my PC in my bag while we went to the mountains and then had issues posting via my smartphone. Pilot error, of course. I’ll write more later. We’re off to see the garden again,…
2018-11-05 Day One and Two in Tokyo!
We arrived yesterday afternoon with a – thankfully – rather uninteresting flight. Actually, the one thing interesting about this United flight is that we experienced some of the worst airplane food we’ve had in some years. The food was almost…
T-1 days and Waiting!
Only a few hours to go until we leave for Japan! I tried to schedule a Lyft for 4:45am, but didn’t get any takes, so we’re going to the airport by ordinary taxi. Oh, well. My last post left on…
T – 4 Days and Counting!
We’re getting down to the finer details for our upcoming trip to Japan – making sure our camera SD cards are empty and the camera lenses are clean; charging all our electronic devices; making sure we have the proper cables;…
T-6 days and counting!
Wow, time is flying! Par for the course for all our other Overseas Adventure (OAT) Tours, as the date for our trip grows closer we’ve now had a chance to talk to our country guide, Hiroshi Ninigawa, and have received…
Travel Time Again! Heading Back to Asia!
My wife and I haven’t been out of the country since June and we were getting restless. So many places to see and so little time! Where to go? Our wish list of travel places to visit is long, so…
Absolutely no absolutes!
I’m reading a lot these days. I’ve been totally ignoring my favorite fictional authors for quite a while and have been focused instead on a number of different authors who write about two topics of special interest to me: time……