This is my 12th time in Japan. 12th time! Who visits Japan twelve times?! By now I should be Japan Travel Ambassador. 11 times I was here as a tourist, and once I worked for a couple of months in … Continue reading
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First things first. This is the greatest music video ever, which just happens to be Japanese. Note the three seconds from 1:19-1:22. So good. If you can’t see it below, the link is here. The first and last thirty seconds … Continue reading
After a long stay in Kashgar, I went to the desert. Hotan was an eight hour, 33 yuan ($5) “hard seat” ride, it’s called, but the seats weren’t so hard. The train was, however, filthy as all hell by the … Continue reading
Who doesn’t love Spain? Are there still people who need convincing? What’s the worst thing you can say about Spain? The people are a little aloof? I don’t hold that against them. I’d been to Spain three or four times, … Continue reading
I tried unsuccessfully to find a Couchsurfing host in Istanbul. I guessed I was too last-minute, but just after I decided to go the hostel route, three people saw my open request and offered me a place to stay. One … Continue reading
Are you thinking of visiting Vancouver? A friend sent this Craigslist room for rent listing to me. $45 a day for a room in a great neighborhood. If you stayed at one of the scuzzy hostels in town, you could … Continue reading
Normally, I check out Google News and search by the town or country I am visiting to see what is going on. Maybe there is a film festival coming or a hot local topic people are stirred up about, but … Continue reading
I don’t remember the circumstances of how I wound up in Chiang Mai’s red light district. I believe I was searching for a new soy drink I’d heard about (that’s my story and I’m sticking with it!) when a beautiful … Continue reading
At the moment we arrived back in Hargeisa from our weekend in Berbera, the first rains of the season came, and though the downpour lasted no more than 30 minutes, the streets were instantly flooded. When the rain subsided, people … Continue reading
How is that for a high-falutin’ title? I just want to mess with the people who are doing serious research and find me on the 4532nd page of Google. Wait a second before I get started. Let me empty my … Continue reading
