The New Plan for Japan
1pm local Shinkansens are great, so great the set unrealistic expectations for the other trains. Even the Super L'EX are just a few notches up from Greyhound. I decided to abort my multiday trip…
Only In Japan
P. Diddy is giving a testimonial for Proactiv pimple cream on CNNj. "I was busy doing a record... And I don't want no bumps on my face..."
Hakodate here I come
I was hoping to get a few more minutes between trains to grab some chow and use the facilities... But when I'm traveling alone it's like I'm compeing in the Cannonball Run. I promise…
Northern Honshu
Japan Rail goofed in Morioka. At first I was very surprised at the thought of a late shinkansen... What I learned about 5 minutes too late was that the ticket had the wrong track number printed on…
Today's Godzilla threat: low
Well that's at least good news.... but check out this: [Typhoon Banyan](http://www.wunderground.com/tropical/tracking/wp200507.html)
An observation
We need to ship some ass to Japan... I'm certainly fond of Asian women, but there is not enough ass fat collectively here to fry an eyelid (an expression courtesy of my father.) Japan has a…
The guidebooks lie
First things first... contrary to the guidebooks English isn't as common as you might think in Japan. At least after midnight... I was supposed to land in Narita around 5pm local. Getting to the…
Big man airlines
At just shy of 6ft tall, and 185lbs, I don't usually consider myself a big man (of course, it depends what you are measuring.) But I appear to be at the practical limit to fit into an airline…
posting from the plane
The trip to detroit was a typical flight for me... sandwiched between dickheads with a screaming baby behind me the whole flight. I was reminded of the MASH episode where the woman smothers her…
New photo site
I've upgraded my [Flickr](http://www.flickr.com) account to a Pro account. It's a pretty sweet deal at $25 a year for essentially unlimited photo storage. The big win is that it's damn…