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We’re home, should you be wondering. Traveling from Japan to Colorado, which involves crossing many time zones, is a little difficult to grasp. We left the hotel at 1:00PM on Thursday, traveled for about 11 hours by plane and three hours by car, sat around in airports for a few hours, and arrived home at [...]

What will probably be the last set of photos from Kyoto is now online here. These were taken today. We covered quite a bit of territory. Tomorrow we head home. Tweet

There’s a new batch of photos here, taken yesterday. Most of them are from a narrow street lined with food vendors, just off the tourist-beaten path of Teramachi Street. Tweet

Here’s my most bestest souvenir from the trip: Yes, that’s a leek in the upper left corner. Don’t ask me “why?” because I won’t be able to answer. Please don’t ask me “how much?” because I don’t want to answer and am trying to forget. Let it suffice to say that my understanding is that [...]

I thought I was going to write something interesting about the day we spent in Kobe yesterday, but it turns out that I was wrong. The short and uninteresting version is that we visited an English-style herb and flower garden (demonstrating the remarkable flair for imitation that the Japanese can summon) which we reached by [...]

Dear Lazyweb: help a fellow audio geek and tell me where I can download a freeware (or inexpensive shareware) audio file editor for Windows XP that doesn’t suck as massively as Audacity. I need something to review the 24-bit audio files I’m recording while on vacation. I have SoundForge at home so I’m not looking [...]

As improbable as this may sound, we attended a brief kimono fashion show during our second day in Kyoto. Kyoto is known for, among other things, its textiles, and there’s a center that has displays of looms, antique fabrics, descriptions of fabric-making processes, and so on. Much of this was familiar to Tracie and myself, [...]

Quick entry: there are two new sets of photos up: one set here of a small number of photos taken during the day we traveled from Tokyo to Kyoto, most notably including some shots of Mt. Fuji; and one set here of a large number of photos taken in and near Kyoto. Tweet

We spent most of our last day in Tokyo shopping. For the second time, Tracie managed to wear out a pair of boots while traipsing around Japan, and I needed some socks. (Tactical packing error: black pants, black shoes, white socks. Oops.) We went to the Matsuya Asakusa department store, the nearby-and-not-as-posh Rox complex, and [...]

We spent yesterday with our guide Sid Makino. Sid has guided us to places in and near Kyoto during our previous visits to Japan; it was good to see him again. We stopped at a small restaurant for lunch, partly so that I could sample a local dish that consists of rice wrapped in a [...]