We took a trip to California this month to enjoy the cooler summer days the Bay Area has to offer (blankets when you sleep! long sleeves!) and visit Grandma and Grandpa. Got a portable whiteboard as a gift from Sakura’s cousins and put it to good use on the way back over the Pacific. Sakura: [...]
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Girl in the snow
Sakura slides Originally uploaded by Durf A quick, content-free post to stick this photo up on the site. I have a batch to go up on Flickr soon from our trip to Yuzawa a few weekends ago. Sakura’s first time in the real snow! She didn’t mind the chair-lift ride on my lap at all, [...]
Subways of the world
Things I rode Originally uploaded by Durf There’s an interesting page that shows the subway networks of the world’s major cities, all at the same scale. These are the ones I’ve been on. Tokyo’s network is overwhelmingly packed with people and convenient, so it has a sprawling feel, but compare it to BART and you [...]
Southern island getaway
DSCF7749.jpg Originally uploaded by turnerw82. Kagoshima resident Turner has blogged a trip to the island of 硫黄島 (Iôjima). Not the island that was a battlefield in the war, but part of the Mishima village island group. The photos of the hot springs make it look like a fantastic place to visit, if you’re in Kyushu [...]
Scandinavian vacation
St. Johannes Kyrka Originally uploaded by Durf This was a vacation in 2002, actually. I had a few photos from it posted on a previous incarnation of this website, but I never got around to uploading any of them to Flickr after getting the account there. Now that’s changing. There’s a set of photos that [...]
