by Jeff Drake | Nov 12, 2018 | Travel
It’s hard to believe that we’ve already experienced half of our tour of Japan! I tried to approach this trip with an open mind. Although I had been to Japan some years ago on business, I didn’t really see anything outside of Shinjuku near my hotel, so I didn’t think...
by Jeff Drake | Nov 11, 2018 | Travel
That’s Japanese for “sorry!” I left my PC in my bag while we went to the mountains and then had issues posting via my smartphone. Pilot error, of course. I’ll write more later. We’re off to see the garden again, this time lit up at night....
by Jeff Drake | Nov 6, 2018 | Travel
We arrived yesterday afternoon with a – thankfully – rather uninteresting flight. Actually, the one thing interesting about this United flight is that we experienced some of the worst airplane food we’ve had in some years. The food was almost unbelievably bad! It was...
by Jeff Drake | Nov 4, 2018 | Travel
Only a few hours to go until we leave for Japan! I tried to schedule a Lyft for 4:45am, but didn’t get any takes, so we’re going to the airport by ordinary taxi. Oh, well. My last post left on in Kanazawa. On day 9 of our trip, after tea with a local Kanazawa family,...
by Jeff Drake | Nov 1, 2018 | Travel
We’re getting down to the finer details for our upcoming trip to Japan – making sure our camera SD cards are empty and the camera lenses are clean; charging all our electronic devices; making sure we have the proper cables; printing out important documents (to go with...
