I’m killing time waiting for the subway to open, much like those passed out girls here in the Samurai Club. I’ve ambled over to the Family Mart to get my Coca-Cola Zero fix. There’s a drink card option in the capsule hotel but they only have fully leaded drinks: I love my genetically modified, scientifically […]
Part of the fun and adventure of being in Japan is getting lost, both spatially and temporally. With kanji characters and a foreign language best described as the Star Wars-ian Force (**) mysticism, I’m truly a stranger in a strange land. (**) This is because my brother has a power I don’t understand and could […]
In some ways, the biggest victory was just getting to the start. It’s true sometimes for a marathon race and it was definitely true this morning as we struggled to find the South side of the Kyoto Avanti shopping mall that was the meeting point for the start of our city tour. Nonetheless, we persisted. […]
You know the “old” movies? Ones that at some point require the protagonists to trail by sleeper car train to some other city? It Happened One Night has one… though maybe that one is a bus. Some Like It Hot definitely features one. But the reason I bring this up is that that’s kinda how […]
If it’s Thursday night, it must be Kyoto… So… I guess I *wasn’t* kidding when I told mom this’d be an adventure. We are apparently staying in a cabin style hotel here in Kyoto. I’m too tired from the flying to do anything else but accept that I totally blew this. In my […]
It’s a small world after all… I’m sitting in the OneWorld club at the Tom Bradley International Airport (TBIT for short). An email message from Shellie asks if I’m in LAX as a mutual friend thinks she sees Kevin the club. Sure enough Mikki and I are both headed to Japan — she’s off to […]
I’m pretty sure the record locator is K-A-F-K-A-1. Upon checking in at Orlando International Airport, my bag got tagged all the way through to Kansai (KIX) but American Airlines was only able to issue my ticket to LAX. They were unable to issue my boarding pass from LAX to KIX because despite being a code […]
It’s almost 3 AM. John Babsone Lane Soule was wrong. So too was Horace Greeley. And thus our Japanese adventure begins. I can’t help but think of this 1992 movie starring Tom Selleck.
I’ve always kinda hated Valentine’s Day. And it’s not for the reason you might think – I’ve hated it when I was with someone as much if not more than when I’ve walked alone. It feels like one of the saddest days of the year. It always seemed to me that if I needed society […]
It’s been quite a day… and it’s only 12:30 PM as I type this. I’ve spent the better part of three hours on the phone today dealing with customer service representatives. I hate the phone. I always have and I always will, so me being on the phone that long is tantamount to being tossed […]