That was a great trip...

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 ... but it's nice to be home.

goodbye, airbnb

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Thank you for being a good home base for us these last 2 weeks. clearing out Also goodbye, pigeons flirting on power lines.

Bulbuls love screaming

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Lisa having left yesterday, there are now only four of us in Japan. This post isn't about that, though. It's about the local brown-e...

Colin's Photos, Day 14 (October 7): Sushi and Akihabara

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Here's my photos from day 14. Lisa, Yuri, Andrew, Kit, and I had an extravagant 21 (?) course sushi lunch with some of the best sushi I...

The Return 2

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Disembarking at Terminal B about 10 PM Eastern: "Look, a Dunks! We're home!" "No, it's closed. We'll really be ho...

moar birds

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The very day I wrote up my last post about birds, we got some excellent birdwatching at the Hamarikyu Gardens. So here's birds, (mostly)...

The Return

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Dana, Isaac, and I have landed safely in Montreal and will board our flight home shortly. We stopped for a bit of traditional airport for, T...

Colin's Photos, Day 13 (October 6): Mt. Takao

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Here's my photos from day 13 , in which many of us climbed up Mt. Takao. Takao-san is the closest mountain to Tokyo, and there's a c...

Colin's Photos, Day 12 (October 5): Kyoto

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Here's my photos from our third day in Kyoto. The main thing here is the Fushimi Inari shrine, which is famous for having so. many. oran...

Colin's Photos, Day 11 (October 4): Kyoto

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Here's my photos from our second day in Kyoto.  We started by going to the very over-touristy but still very impressive Golden Temple, K...

A lunch date!

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I  have known for several months that my friend Deanna has been hanging out in Japan while she is between jobs. The first night we were here...