I’ve just put up my first post-vacation set of photos here on Flickr. The theme for this set is trains: photos of trains, photos taken from trains, photos of people near trains, etc. It’s probably a little difficult to understand my fascination with the Japanese shinkansen (bullet trains) are unless you’ve seen them in person. I won’t try to explain it; I’ll just say two things: first, they make every form of mass transportation in the US look like a hapless joke; second, even on our seventh visit to Japan, we like them so much that we spent an evening hanging out on a platform in Kyoto station watching them come and go (and taking pictures).
