Osaka

A very nice city with a little bit of everything. Smaller than Tokyo and a very comfortable place. The center was a small network of pedestrian streets that drew a broad cross section of society in the evenings. Here are the bicycle police impounding illegally parked bikes. Nearly everything in Japan seemed to have an …

Kyoto

As soon as we arrived in Kyoto we had to go to a pharmacy for an antihistamine 🙁  I had a very bad allergic reaction to bug bites in my legs that I got in Virginia a week before leaving to Asia. My ankles were swollen and the bug bites were itching badly. Pharmacies in …

Tokyo

We left our house around 4AM and flew from Raleigh, NC to Los Angeles. We had a 4 hour layover in LA. We didn’t want to eat airport food so we asked a latino guy for recommendations and he sent us to La Fonda (very close to the airport). I always wonder when they have …