Archive for the 'japan' Category

personal unity…

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

ahhh…back at the ANA hotel in tokyo – feeling at home in the immense city of Tokyo and the classy comfort of this hotel (thank you uncle rod!). have relocated the blog authoring location to the 36th floor manhattan lounge – amazing views of the skyline from here. we returned from Kyoto tonight via the bullet train, after two shopping filled days in the 7th largest city in japan. originally the capital of japan, Kyoto hosts a dense collection of culture and history in a beautiful location (nearly 2000 shinto shrines and buddhist temples).

yesterday it rained…hard…our tour was very disorganized (more…)

balinese in japan?

Wednesday, October 11th, 2006

so i’m back at my usual place, the champagne room – tonight it seemed the staff had changed – no cheers environment (nobody knew my name) but one of the waiters saved me when my new waitress didn’t know what type of drink i was ordering – he had remembered me, walked over and motioned that he would explain to her…

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i think i’m turning japanese

Sunday, October 8th, 2006

day two in japan and after a night of looking at the differences here, i was able to slide into the groove of things and made some glorious discoveries of people and places in this foreign land…

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a bumpy ride into narita

Friday, October 6th, 2006

the seat belt light went on as we approached narita international airport, the plane started to pitch and yaw…

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watch out griswalds, here come the tanakas!

Thursday, October 5th, 2006

blogging at it’s finest…sitting in the red carpet room waiting for our flight - thought i’d take out the laptop and do a blog entry!

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