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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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Tagged baby wrestling, Big Buddha, Deer Park, Fallout, Fallout Shelter, Fushimi-Inari Shrine, geisha, ghost, Gion District, Heian Shrine, Ingress, International Manga Museum, Kasuga Shrine, Kazunari, Kenta, Kinkakuji Temple, Kiyomizu Temple, Kyoto, Kyoto National Museum, Matsui Shuzo Brewery, monster, museum, Nara, Nijo Castle, Pokemon, sake, Sanju-Sangendo Hall, sushi, swastika, Todaiji Temple, Tofukuji Temple, Torii, train, tshirt, yokai
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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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Tagged bus, Chion-in, John Scalzi, Kyoto, Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art, Liam, Louvre, Magritte, National Museum of Art, Old Man's War, Osaka, Philosopher's Walk, Pocari Sweat, pottery, Pure Land Buddhism, salad dressing, Sedona Cafe, Shoren-in, The Last Samurai, tiny pencils, Torii
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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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Tagged Airbnb, baseball, cuttlefish, haircut, Japan, Kenta, Koh Samui, Kyoto, Larry Niven, lizard, sake, Sapporo, seagull, Taiwan, Thailand, The Integral Trees, Tokyo
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