Just a day, riding a bike around Kyoto. Rode my bike along the river stunning, visited some of my favorite zen gardens, made the pilgrimage to Ryoanji. Made a couple of friends. One named Dan, an evolutionary .. chemical biologist? It's a bit confusing, we talked about ribosomes and rode bikes and Dan seemed to enjoy my rambling. Incidentally, Dan is a post-doc at NYU and lives where I lived until about two months ago. He was in Kobe for a conference, concluded. We met his friend of a friend, Lauren, biologist in waiting, ALT (Assistant Language Teacher, like Beau) in Kyoto. The kid in the awesome T-shirt is her student. Those are his sisters. We ate at their grandparent's restaurant, feasted on Kansai ryori (Kansai fare); lo, 'twas good.
