| Travel Site |
[Sep. 11th, 2007|07:53 pm] |
Hey all. Since livejournal is a bit tedious to add lots of photos to I've made an alternate blog for my trip which can be seen here: Travel Blog.
That's where all the updates have been going. (well there and facebook) Anyway, head that direction for visual and report from the Great Train Escape. Cha cha cha. |
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| The Great Railway Adventure! |
[Jul. 26th, 2007|02:21 pm] |
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It's official folks! The great journey is at hand in less than 10 days. My time in Japan has been sweet but it is at an end. The next jaunt has me traveling the tran-siberian railway followed by a tour of Europe and finally back to New York. Here's the route:
It will be a very old school trip. No planes or Shinks, only trains and ferries (and the occasional camel). With luck I'll survive it and meet some really weird people going across Siberia. I probably won't be posting here about my experiences, but I intend to set up a travel blog on a different site where I'll be uploading pictures and moaning about my vodka hangover. Be prepared! |
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| Evil |
[Jun. 25th, 2007|12:51 pm] |
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Got it two years running baby! Aren`t you proud Mom?
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| Oops. |
[Jun. 17th, 2007|06:28 pm] |
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Haven't updated this in a while so here's the promised past:
To see the Borneo Adventure in it's near entirety go here: Borneo Holiday
I had to make a flickr account because there were just too many pictures.
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| Hanami! |
[Apr. 9th, 2007|06:12 pm] |
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I'm so relieved I got to do hanami this year! Last year I was in Thailand, which was great, but I do love this kind of Japanese thing. Plus, this year I got to play host to my Aunt and Uncle as they're visiting Japan for the first time. (well, Marie anyway).
So, here's hanami in Iwakuni, which is gorgeous right now. This day, Marie, Tim, Jeff and I had our bento picnic, admired kintaikyo bridge, ate some strange icecream, took the best iwakuni had to offer for an onsen then played scrabble. It was a very nice day. ^_^
   
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| Happy Cock and Cock Fighting |
[Apr. 5th, 2007|04:23 pm] |
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Last weekend was practically a no-sleeper. Normally that makes me bitchy as hell, but for some reason I had a pretty good time.
Met up with Steph, Tammy and Jessica and checked out Steph's new city pad. (I had to do bloody homestay when I was taking my japanese course, she just rents an apartment...nice!) Had a very cathartic day of walking/browsing and one of the top five meals of my time here in Japan at a tiny restaurant/bar that Steph is friends with. Roast chicken, namahamu salad, and a cassius orange... I haven't felt so satisfied in a long time.
Naturally though, things took their usual crazy turn as everyone beelined for the Happy Cock. Now, I've been here maybe 3 times before this night and each time I swear it's my last. I'm really not a fan of the nomihodai and paying 2000yen to sip cranberry juice while 40-yr old, pony-tailed geezers hit on you is not my idea of fun. That and herding drunk friends around like cattle. *sigh* But, at least this time the 6:30 am return of Steph and Danny was more funny than annoying. A few pics are below, though I omitted the ones where Saranne and Paul were respledent with bananas, condoms, and tea cozies.
PHOTO EVIDENCE: A bit of Thai nomihodai and dancing at the Happy Cock. How embarrassing. (but not as embarrassing as Paul with a kettle on his ass and Saranne with a banana...)
    
Onto Steph's before and after...
  
And then to Nagasaki for K-1!
K-1! I missed sumo when it was in Fukuoka before, but my more pressing dream has been to see K-1 live. Thanks to Tammy and her friend Erin (girlfriend of Nick, below) Anita, Keith, Danny, and myself were close enough see the teeth loosen in the fighter's mouths. It was a grand time cheering on Yuya (another friend and new fighter) as he won his second bout, watch one fighter german suplex the other to near neck-snapping results, and finally Nick defend his title beautifully.
I would love to do K-1 if they had a weight class for me. But, after seeing that thai fighter on tv whip a tiny japanese girl I think they just might! Next after JET? ^_^
First: Nick, the main event and still reigning champ.
    
Misc. fights: Boxing, grappling, kickboxing, muay thai, and german suplexes:
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| Lazy |
[Mar. 29th, 2007|10:00 pm] |
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Frankly lots of things have been going on, down and all around Iwakuni, but I'm too lazy to post about it right now so I'm just going to put up the pics I got and do an itemized list. Easier for all parties involved, i.e. me.
First: Paintings!
Sakai-sensei just sent me these. If you don't recall who that is, he is an art teacher from a school I work at. He's drawn/pasteled me before and these are the fruits of the second sitting. I guess he really liked the blue dress. (but my goodness, what a booty I seem to have in that first one!)
 
Second: Paintball!
Other people have posted the pics that my sister sent around, but I just need to add how fun, and painful, it was. Really good time until I got my finger shot and had one of those shock attacks. Seriously, I think I could lose an arm and be like, meh, but a pinky? That calls for blackouts. Sheesh.
Third: Jenn and Sam and the great Kyoto adventure part. 2
Obviously there are mountains of pics and stuff that happened but that's for another time. (sorry Jenn!)
Fourth:
This video! Brilliant! So Japan! So...on crack...
Da da! |
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