I’m in Kyoto now. Have been for a few days, but the bizarre internet cafe I was using has something seriously wrong with the computers, and was tripping a spam-block on my hosting server, so I couldn’t even comment on posts on my own site. Lovely city. I could spend weeks here wandering. Would prefer it to the hectic running about. Was caught in a rainstorm today. I wish I could say it was lovely, but it was kind of horrible. My Lonely Planet book is wrecked, my rentaphone was acting weird, I was soaked, and I was too flustered …
Category: TRAVELS
… Hakodate…
Is where I am now. Attention saving announcement, I’m just blabbing about trip activities, so if you’re not interested, skip down to the bit on travel-photography. It’s been interesting and mostly quite cool. I met up with a guy I’ve sort-of known online for years now, Lal. He’s cool and we had a lot to talk about. Unfortunately he was flying out the next morning, but I’m sure the next time our paths cross will be good fun. I’ve been eating lots of Sapporo ramen. This puts Korean ramyeon to shame, it’s amazing stuff and I am going to find …
Sapporo
I flew to Tokyo on Tuesday evening, got a ticket for Sapporo for Wednesday night, and went wandering in Tokyo the rest of that evening. Next day, wandered some more, and (barely!) caught my train for Sapporo. Overnight train, got here Thursday morning, and found myself a room so I could shower and so on. Tokyo is boiling hot, but Sapporo is nice and cool. I need new sandals — my feet have blisters already — but I’m feeling like a new person after a nice soak in a big, warm bath. Anyway, I’ll only be in Hokkaido a few …
Pulling Your Feet Up
So one of the things I’m planning to do in Japan, mostly on trains, is proofread some of the writing I’ve done in the past year. I have a good stack of stories that need editing and proofing before they can be sent out, and it’s the kind of thing I’m more likely to do when I don’t have a PC with me. Since I’m leaving my laptop at home this trip — carrying it about for three weeks feels just ever so slightly too cumbersome — I will be bringing a portable hard drive (with my most recently forked …
Having spent much of the night…
Having spent much of the night doing ten things at once, like scanning poems for a readings package I was hoping to finalize before leaving, and ripping CDs, and trying to remember to go fetch the laundry that’s in the dryer, and install some programs on Lime’s computer since the drastic OS-reinstallation we had to do the other day, I find myself sitting here, almost at 8am, and not even tired. I’m not bragging. I suspect this is probably bad, since I’ve done with only 5 or 6 hours of sleep a night for a while now. I leave for …