Post-fall colors

Okay, so it’s a little late for a “fall leaves” post.  But they’re still out in Japan, AND I caught some on … memory card these past two weekends.  Thanks to some zoom and crop, you’d never know I wasn’t surrounded by a bunch of dead sticks otherwise.  Actually, there really was plenty of scenery […]

Semi-sleeper bus

More for convenience of timing than for anything, I decided to take an overnight bus to and from Kyoto last Saturday.  This meant getting to Shinjuku station for an 11:50pm departure, arriving at Kyoto station at 6:50am the next morning, spending the day in Kansai, and then hopping on an 11:00pm bus to come back […]

Un-smush, wireless, and beer breath

For round 2 of fun yet painful dance class, I actually talked to some people.  One gal could actually say my name like Audrey vs. o-doe-ree (the asian-ified way) … because she’d watched episodes of 24. Apparently there’s an Audrey on 24?  Anyhow, she’s been taking jazz hip hop for the past 10 years.  Another […]