This entry is just a thoughtstream. Well, I’ve been up in the Bay Area officially for a little over 2 weeks now and it was a long ride. The moving up process was pretty smooth thanks to my new company organizing a moving company, but it was a very bittersweet ending to my time in…
Yearly Archives: 2013
ryan and a railpass – days 8, 9 – tokyo typhoon, LA 帰り (aka the final post)
Tokyo. My final stop. Well, for a second time, but coming back was the signal that this trip was coming to a close. My railpass would no longer be valid, I’d have one more night to spend and a full day (Wed) before my flight out at midnight. After not being able to see Mt…
ryan and a railpass – day 7 – mt. fuji
Well, I’ll start this off with full disclosure. I did not see Mt. Fuji. I mean, i saw the base of it. The rest of the mountain was entirely covered by a nice blanket of fluffy grey clouds, which at the time I did not realize were precluding the incoming typhoon about to smack the…
ryan and a railpass – day 6 – nagano
Completely out of the blue, Nagano turned out to be one of my favorite stops. When I booked this trip, I had no idea what I was going to do in Nagano. In fact, I only knew two things about it: 1) the Olympics were there in 1998, and 2) It was the end of…