koya line

this train is even  louder than the Bart.

japan day four:koyasan

free day for all.  I debated bulleting to tokyo via bullet train but talked myself out of that waste of time money and energy.  

so I did something way better instead.  spent all day (and night) walking around a graveyard.  

200,000 to 300,000 graves, massive grounds with shiny new marble grave stones to collapsed moss covered ones centuries old.

 

 

japan day three

Uji green tea capital of japan.

 

 

koyasan

unreal. 

this place is unreal.

Japan day two: Kyoto

bamboo forest
amazing traditional tofu restaurant
tenryu ji temple

river walk then the temple

then ramen dinner

choose your menu, buy your ticket via computer console,  then get in line, then get seated in tiny 10-15 seat shop.

misc.

japan day one: kyoto

kiyomizu temple

love temple

sanjusangen do temple
shopping
ninja restaurant

ninja restaurant. I didn't know this thing existed but I'm glad it does. bucket list item retroactively checked.

Japan day zero

transit

assuming reciprocal travel status?   occurred to me while standing here in immigration line I probably should have checked if a visa was required to get into japan, and not just assume american privilege. 

everyone in the immigration line chinese.

never change, fox news

711 pho

Juggalos vs. Nazis in DC

Pho at 711

what a time to be alive.

bridge burning

I always said "I dont build bridges, i burn them", but this is a more accurate description of what really occurs.

goodbye memory evocations

too attached to this object... got to let go. 

strange couch

I have no problem sleeping in flea infested straw mattresses in third world train station hovels, but waking up in friends living room still feels very weird.

literal, ice cream, truck

literal, sun, flower

meal 2

reuben

meal #1 Portland

mod pizza.

no more pizza places for the rest of Portland. I promised myself.

hnl to sfo July 2017

you can't do nothing right, united.  how is this man next to me suppose to sit in his seat with a broken tray table? the seat really should be held empty for safety reasons.

band aids, the flight attendant was going to use band aids to tape it close...

but then they found some stickers.  

knowing my place

cash vs. credit

what will happen to all the beggars and homeless people when we become a cashless, card-only society?

deconstructed guacamole

seatbelt diy

Mexican dinner

sweet sweet nostalgia

oh man, and when the box finally comes and the teacher passes out your bundle of books. 

...Calvin and Hobbes, Garfield, r.l.stein, maniac McGhee, the giver, my side of the mountain...

adulting

my first dry cleaning.

me = adult

checkmate, global warming.