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Chicago’s Field Museum

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Travel

Over Thanks­giv­ing week­end, some friends and I went to Chicago to see the King Tut Exhibit. It was amaz­ing. Unfor­tu­nately, they had a no photo pol­icy on that exhibit. With the crowd and all the secu­rity peo­ple, I didn’t want to get kicked out so I didn’t take any pic­tures of that exhibit. But our […]

Tags: Chicago, Field Museum, King-Tut, Photos

Read more | Comments (4) | Nov 26, 2006

Reflections on Japan

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Travel

I’ve been back in the States for a few days now and I’ve been mean­ing to1 write a lit­tle some­thing reflect­ing back on the trip; how­ever with jet lag and what not2, I’ve been a bit too tired to write any­thing up. Since I received a friendly reminder about it from AWelkin; I fig­ure I […]

Tags: anime, annoyed, Books, breakfast, culture, dinner, Food, foreign, geek, HAL, home, Japan, Links, Love, mental, pain, park, shopping, soup, thanks, toys, Travel, Weather, writing

Read more | Comments (1) | Aug 12, 2004

Japan Day 13

Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel

Another day of rais­ing from bed far too damn early; only to hop on trains and run like the wind to make all our train/plane con­nec­tions. *sigh* The day started off poorly as one of the stu­dents spent the night in S-sensai’s room and another had the key to her room with him at the […]

Tags: home, Japan, Love, problem, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 7, 2004

Japan Day 12

Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel

Today we went to Kyoto. We’d been warned that it was one of the hottest places in Japan, but I hadn’t paid too much atten­tion to the warn­ings think­ing that I wouldn’t really notice the dif­fer­ence after the heat I’d already been deal­ing with. Boy was I ever wrong! It was the sin­gle most brutal […]

Tags: bathroom, beef, camera, crap, gallery, history, Japan, Love, Photos, shopping, Travel, water, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 6, 2004

Japan Day 11

Posted by Mark | Filed under Travel

Today we had to get up and check out of the hotel by 6:00 AM (or 5:45 AM if you had phone charges to pay for like I did). Then we ran to catch the early morn­ing train and made some exchanges to get over to Takarazuka, where we vis­ited the Osamu Tezuka Museum. The […]

Tags: Apple, basement, Books, coffee, crap, dinner, Elsewhere, Food, foreign, friends, future, HAL, heh, home, Japan, thanks, Weather, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Aug 5, 2004

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