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Tour de Fail – Kyoto, part 2

Monday, August 3rd So, after 2 museums and two temples and a lot of walking and sweating on Sunday, I just relaxed at home on Monday and read.  I’d include a picture of the place and the book, but the … Continue reading

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Tour de Fail – Kyoto

Friday, July 31st My early flight from Taipei to Kyoto wasn’t actually to Kyoto.  It was to the nearby, larger Osaka, and the Osaka International Airport, from which you then take a 1-hour train to Kyoto itself.  It’s weird that … Continue reading

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Counting The Hours

As I write this, it’s Saturday afternoon in sunny Ban Po village on the island of Koh Samui (and in many other places besides), where the temperature just after lunch was “93, feels like 117”.  I’m sitting in front of … Continue reading

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