Five billion years ago when I was in college, a friend and I drove in a 9,500 mile (15,500 km) circle around USA (dipping into Toronto) to see as many baseball games as we could in a month. We did … Continue reading
The Dromomaniac
There’s been some scuttlebutt in cyberspace that my volleyball skills are less than exemplary, so let me put that to rest with this photo, a classic from my UC-Santa Barbara days. (To paraphrase an old joke: I didn’t go to … Continue reading
Count me as aghast that such a refined-sounding establishment as The Dirty Donkey might have a less-than-sophisticated clientele. … Continue reading
It’s hard to sleep in the wild animal kingdom. The last two days I thought I was beginning to turn the corner but I get awoken by a lone wild turkey at exactly the same time. He(?) steps slowly on … Continue reading
I can’t sleep in the best of times, plus now I have jet lag. Everyone assumes that since I am home I can sleep better, but I can’t sleep well anywhere. Last time I came home with jet lag, for … Continue reading
In case you didn’t know, it isn’t fun to drag 27kg (60lbs) of stuff from one side of greater Tokyo to the other and beyond to the airport. It involved multiple train transfers and I managed to make a Japanese … Continue reading
It looks like it is going to happen. I plan to use 25,000 frequent flier miles to fly home on a one-way ticket. I realized I made a tactical mistake with my miles. I should have bought a ticket to … Continue reading
In this restaurant if you could eat a gyoza (dumpling) this big within 30 minutes, you get it free. If not, 9600 yen ($115). Japanese ultra nationalists drive around in vans and buses looking like this and blast propaganda. Somehow … Continue reading
