I just got back from a four day, whirlwind of a mini-vaca in Kyoto and Osaka. Here are some of the highlights: Drinking hot sake at a night-time Cherry Blossom viewing party, counseling the distraught mother of a rebellious teen at four in the morning in a youth hostel, taking a knitting class at a… Read More Pictures from Kyotoland
I’ve been afraid of monkeys ever since I was attacked by a monkey in India last year. So I was more than a little apprehensive to learn that these ‘snow monkeys’ I was going to visit in Nagano wouldn’t be domesticated and caged, but wild and free and numbering in the hundreds. I guess I… Read More Adventure in Monkeyland
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/32/52113862_f02e6415a2.jpg?v=0 “These vagabond shoes are longing to stray, Right through the heart of it,New york, New York.”– Frank Sinatra It’s five am and I’m awake. But this time my insomnia isn’t of the “What am I doing with my life life?/Why, oh why am I in Japan?” variety. I’m awake because I’m jet lagged. And… Read More Live from New York…
Living in Japan is a really lonely experience. I have a lot of acquaintances here, but few people I can call close friends. This is true of my life in America too, though. I’ve spent so much time abroad that I’ve collected friends like I’ve collected postcards; found and then immediately forgotten. I’m a regular… Read More People I Will Never Know: Thoughts On Meeting People While Traveling
Me at the Kasai Rinkin Koen Beach in Tokyo Like my fan? It’s tres Japanese. Summer has finally hit Japan. Hard. And I live on the first floor of a concrete apartment building that has no air conditioning. And there are only three windows in my entire apartment. So as you can probably imagine, cold… Read More What Tokyo is like in the Summer: Time to break out the gloves and sun umbrellas!