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As I mentioned two posts ago, I’ve run out of steam for writing about the Japan trip. Blogging about traveling in a foreign country ultimately seems a futile exercise because so much happens and there are only so many hours in the day in which to write (and so much energy with which to write). [...]

I’ve finished uploading photos from our trip to the Photo Gallery section of this website. The photos are grouped by the cities we visited. We didn’t put captions on them; if you have any questions you can either email me or Tracie or post a comment here. Click here to go directly to the new [...]

It’s probably obvious by now that my attention has been drawn away from this blog. Much to my surprise we’ve been home for two weeks now; honestly it feels more like a week. Between the various demands of getting back into the swing with both businesses and with the unusual circumstances of Tracie’s mother residing [...]

As I mentioned previously, I foolishly did not bring my camera to the dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Makino. Sid had his camera, though, and sent me a few pictures that he took (and that other people took with his camera). A taxi driver took this one: The waitress took the last one, as you [...]

Sorry for the lapse in posting. As you can imagine, I’ve been busy with getting out of vacation mode and back into normal daily living/working/etc. mode. Of course this transition is complicated by Tracie’s mother’s hospitalization, but we’re making do. I wasn’t able to post photos until we reached Kyoto. Here are photos from our [...]

My computer says that it’s 8:19AM on Monday, a fact which I’m trying to accept at face value. In truth, my jetlag seems to be dissipating. I’m still waking up about two hours earlier than usual but I no longer feel nearly as temporally dislocated as I did two days ago. While staring at the [...]

We’re home. We’ve actually been home for about 24 hours but I haven’t had a chance to put anything up here before now. The return trip was uneventful. I don’t think that there’s much to say about it except that nine-hour flights are somewhat awful to endure. I spent most of the time playing with [...]

Today we travel back to our home in Boulder. I may or may not have the opportunity to write another post before we leave. If I don’t post again shortly, it’ll be at least 24 hours before my next post. It takes quite some time to get from Kyoto to Boulder. I have enough thoughts [...]

One box of four packages of green tea KitKats. How could I resist? I couldn’t, obviously.

Today is our last full day in Kyoto; tomorrow we start our long journey home just after noon. We didn’t have any specific plans for the day. Perhaps because we ended up with more Japanese cash on hand than we expected, our thoughts turned to shopping. Tracie had seen some bowls in Tokyo which she [...]