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Oregon Trail is being played on a laptop, where a ferry (in-game) has broke loose from its moorings.
4 Years is a Long Time
News flash: burnout and taking photos are not mutually exclusive.
#newsOriginally posted: 2024/03/5
The interior of a deli in the Lower East Side of Manhattan
What's in a Sandwich/LES
Photo: the debate over what a sandwich is rages on in the Lower East Side, 2018.
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/03/13
A couple reads under the trees at Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Japan
Reading
Photo Tokyo, 2017, where reading outdoors on a rainy day should be the dream.
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/02/20
On the stairwell at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton
AGA/Edmonton
Photo: curved metal, glass windows, and spontaneous photo ops in Edmonton, 2011.
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/02/3
POV shot of being in a go-kart in Akihabara, Tokyo
Throwing Bananas Across Rainbow Bridge
If you have an international drivers license (and a costume), why not go-kart in the busy streets of Tokyo?
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2020/01/16
The shinkansen approaches a station in western Honshu/eastern Kyushu
Intermission: Shinkansen
Train announcements overheard on the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/12/13
The lights of night in Roppongi
Good Night/Hustlers [Part 2]
Forced smiles and standing around - but no dancing allowed.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/11/21
Walking through the streets at night in Shinjuku
Good Night/Hustlers [Part 1]
How an attempt to go clubbing in Japan started in a British Pub
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/11/7
Rainy day at the Baraki train station in central Japan
Intermission: Trains
Train announcements overheard on a day of riding trains in northern Honshu and Tokyo.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/09/6
Lights above the baseball diamond at the (then) Telus Field in Edmonton
Diamond Lights
Photo: April 2006, and a reminder of the worst thing to happen as a college-age kid
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/06/20
Picture of Keanu Reeves at a restaurant in Singapore
Reeves in a Thai Restaurant
Photo: Singapore, 2019, and finding Keanu Reeves on a wall in a Thai restaurant in Purvis
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/05/9
Two urinals and a toilet in a washroom. There are no stalls.
Toilets/Boracay
Photo: someone just needs to explain this to me, found in an upscale resort in Boracay, 2019
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/04/24
A balsa is navigating through Pagsanjan Falls
Pagsanjan Falls
Photo: shooting the rapids to Pagsanjan Falls, Philippines, 2011
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/04/12
On the sailboat, sailing around the Whitsundays, the skipper taking a break.
The Whitsundays
Photo: Whitsundays, 2013, and why you shouldn't give me anything to hold in the water
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/03/10
Four syphon coffee devices at Lynn Canyon Cafe, North Vancouver. Two are operating.
Syphon Coffee/Lynn Canyon
Photo: questions about this fancy coffee apparatus found in North Vancouver, 2012
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/02/13
View from the "rafters" at the Hollywood Bowl in September, 2011
Hollywood Bowl/The National
Photo: Sept. 11/2011 at the Hollywood Bowl,
#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/01/7
Snow sits on the lanterns lining the main path at Okunoin.
Beyond the Grave (in Koyasan) [Part 2]
From dinner to check-out, what it's like to stay at a temple stay in Koyasan.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/11/15
Snow falls from the rooftop of a temple in the Kongobu-ji complex in Koyasan.
Beyond the Grave (in Koyasan) [Part 1]
Finding serenity and peace at the top of a mountain cemetery in Japan.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/11/1
The eponymous Yufuin burger is available in ... Yufuin.
The Best Burger in Japan?
A bar patron in Tokyo convinces me to eat a burger in a small onsen town 10-hours away by train.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/10/19
Mount Fuji as seen from an airplane as it circles towards Narita Airport, Japan
Welcome to Japan
Arriving in Japan for the first time after a 12-hour work shift, 14-hours of flying, and a 6-hour commute.
#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/10/11