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Day 18 Back to Tokyo

Just a quick post on the last long train journey this trip with the added attraction of traveling under the sea - the Hokkaido Shinkansen. This is also one of the newest Shinkansen line which opened in 2016 after the Seikan Tunnel was completed, opening the route from Aomori to

Day 19 Tokyo High and Low Wandering

Back to Tokyo for the final stint of this trip and it's so comfortable. We've settled in a residential neighborhood in Nakano-ku, not far from where we used to live before moving to Berkeley. While a lot has changed - mostly gotten updated and evolved to

Day 21 Wandering old Stomping Grounds

Some paying attention will notice that Day 20 has been skipped over. Nothing much happened - we visited Marie' at her new job near Roppongi with a few shots, but not worth a full post. Some of the better shots include the go-karts at Roppongi Crossing, and a Green

Berkeley Foothills on a Sunny Sunday - 22 Jun 2025

I took a couple hour wander through the lower altitude Berkeley Hills - the Berkeley Foothills to me - and took the big camera. This was mostly to test a new lens. I came back with some decent shots and this blog is just hanging out here, so why not.

18 Oct 2025

Pink on White

Test of Morning Ghost

3 Apr 2024 - Alps by Day and Night

This is actually a tale of two trips - a lovely ride through some of the most picturesque country in the world and one that most definitely was not. I had been on the Milan to Zurich route the only other time I was in Milan back in the 1980s on a contract for SRI. The second half of our journey, overnight train from Zurich to Zagreb, was an unknown but we had hopes for it.

6 February, 2025

2 Apr 2024 - Milan: JetLag, Cemetery, and Market

In which our weary travelers commiserate with the well-off dead while walking to an amazing open-air market.

17 June, 2024

2025 OSECHI for Two

Happy 2025