Aomori Ocean

Apropos of Nothing, Fav Photos From My Travels

Buy a mask at Todaiji

Tim o' the boat

Dog ties - Korea

Third Ring Road, Beijing

Sumo face stickers - Azabu-juban

Self-portrait

I HAVE CRAFTED THE PERFECT PENGUIN

The Olympic stadium is Red.

Bird's Nest?

I have so many photos form the Aquarium ..

Gotemba loves its kittens.

Girls in Seoul.

Fuji! From the top of Julie's apartment building.

Ciccone's wife or: Surprise! Photos from three years ago

Curry (Jukie style, with apples)

Cat of the fall, Meguro

Always love the Indian food

rofl ...

The Great Wall Forum

A link from Andreas Christoph:

Great Wall Forum

Spend some time digging around at the forum, and tell me that you're not absolutely crazy to go bum around the Wall! I myself have fallen prey to a wicked case of the Great Wall fever.

This guy knows what I'm talking about.

Jack-o-lanterN!

I carved it.

From the archives, the Great Wall at Jiumenkou

You would think that, 'front and back of Great Wall' is sort of a gimme, as far as historical accuracy goes; unfortunately, not. My friend Andreas Christoph, the German Great Wall Enthusiast, tells me that they rebuilt the Wall at Jiumenkou with the inside out and the outside in. Nevertheless! The scenery is beautiful and the wall, as long as you can ignore the misplaced waterspouts, is a friendly jaunt through the countryside. The true draw of the wall is the vantage point that it provides, as a virtually endless pedestrian causway floating just slightly above the stunning countryside of China. Think of the Highline, only is goes on and on and on and on .. Walking along the wall is a narrative, a slowly unfolding self portrait of China. Of course, it's always best to get to the road less traveled, onto the 'wild wall' and away from the other tourists, even if it requires bending a couple of rules, or waiting until the guard looks the other way and hopping a couple of barriers.

Walking in the fields of Aomori

Overwhelming Cuteness/Our Most Honorable Robot Overlords

Noah

Poko

On Halloween, Japanese children dress up in garbage bags covered with stickers, and families bake the traditional '銀パイ,’ metal pies to be left as offerings, accompanied by jars of 'ozeki' one-cup sake, for the benevolent robot overlords (ロボさま） in residence at the local shrine. It's a bit lost in translation, but Halloween never the less. Beau baked this pie.

I am still staying at the house of my friends, Beau and Chikako. As such, I just wanted to take a moment to recognize the overwhelming cuteness with which I am confronted on a daily basis, in the form of Noah and Poko. Also, a metal pie.

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