On travel soon

[Henry J]

Your going to name one of them Data?

Insufficient, uh, information, to answer that question!

Henry

[lswot]

Yay! I confused Henry!

[Henry J]

[lswot]

[AnneB]

If this wasn't Brian's thread, I would lock it. Don't we have a nonsense thread somewhere?

[Xjmt]

If this wasn't Brian's thread, I would lock it. Don't we have a nonsense thread somewhere?

[Henry J]

[lswot]

Oh, yeah, huh? Ok......back to topic......what was it, again?

[Henry J]

Something about Japan?

Henry

[LHawke]

I thought it was about travel.

[brian]

Back on the subject, some of the photos from Japan I've been promising are ready!

I finally got some of my pics organized and uploaded to Facebook, along with captions so you can tell what you’re looking at.

First off, to get you oriented (no pun intended, Henry! )... I was working in a town called Iwakuni, which is about 500 miles west-southwest of Tokyo. Take a look at this map: http://mapoftheunitedstates.files.wordp ... /japan.jpg

Follow the green line west from Tokyo and you'll eventually see Hiroshima, then a short distance later, Miyajima. Another equally short distance along the coast beyond Miyajima (but not labeled on the map) is Iwakuni, where I was working for 10 days in May and 32 days in July and August.

Here's a phone screencap of a map of the local area from when I was there:

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When I went in May, I only had one day off. We went to Miyajima island and climbed Mt. Misen: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... f22db3c52f

In July, I also had little time off. But we were working early shifts, usually starting at 5am. So one Saturday we took off at 1pm and went back to Miyajima, since one of my coworkers had never been there: http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 8f9a1b9b41

In August, I had a Sunday off so I went to Hiroshima for the day (note that some of the pics in this album are a bit graphic wrt to the bombing and its effects): http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2 ... 243532df51

Let me know if you can’t access these, and I’ll check the permissions.

[brian]

After all that nature and culture, the balance of my time off was spent doing touristy things. I spent my birthday in Osaka, where I saw a Broadway show (Wicked) in Japanese, went to the aquarium and Universal Studios Japan. Then on the way home, I spent three nights in Tokyo and went to Tokyo Disneyland and DisneySea. I have not yet had a chance to organize those photos. I'll post them when I do.

[Henry J]

First off, to get you oriented

Ah, to avoid having an occidental?

[lswot]

First off, to get you oriented

Ah, to avoid having an occidental?

He had to do it......

[lswot]

Wow.....you take more pictures than I do.

"In August, I had a Sunday off so I went to Hiroshima for the day (note that some of the pics in this album are a bit graphic wrt to the bombing and its effects....."

Yeah.....while in Krakow we went to Auschwitz and it was very sobering........