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I bought this bottle of whiskey last August in Portland, Maine. Portland, Maine, was the second of three stops I made in New England: the first was Western Massachusetts to see a high school friend; the third Boston to meet other friends. I chose Portland because I’d never been there – I’ve been to […] When I went to Japan, to Hiroshima, for the first time, back in 2013, I made a point of flying ANA, All Nippon Airways, there. At the time, they flew the 787 from Frankfurt to Tokyo Handea. I came back on Swiss via Toyko Narita. I think the number of times that I have […] Last fall I took a week off to explore and hike throughout The Gaspésie peninsula of Québec, Canada. I extolled the virtues of my vacation last November – about a month after I got home. Even now, some 9 months after I was there, I miss that particular trip. My analysis of it in […] I bought the above vase while visiting Okinawa in January. My trip to Japan was an excellent vacation and, in light of ensuing madness, something that has kept me going over the last few months. I found the vase in a shop along the north side of Kokusai-dori, a street near my hotel. It […] The above bear, which is eating from a strawberry tree, usually stumps friends. The drawing is on my wall of foreign locals, just above and to the left of Amsterdam, my first Whatchamacallit, back in March. When I ask people to guess where the drawing comes from, most people’s first instinct is Berlin – […] Last July I spent a lovely long weekend in Oslo – really everything about that weekend was perfect, save for the shitty hotel I’d chosen (the manager tried to argue points with me in email about the hotel’s greatest flaw – I think she understood why I was upset, but did not understand the […] Back in April 2015 I visited the Kanayama Shrine in Kawasaki, Japan. I was there, specifically, to visit the Festival of the Steel Phallus: かなまら祭り / Kanamara Matsuri. I wrote about the Festival of the Steel Phallus and about the Kanayama Shrine in general. This is one of a few objects that I brought […] In early April 2014 I visited Seoul, a city that I can easily imagine living in. I’ve actually visited the city twice. I’ve told any number of people that if you told me today that I would have to move to South Korea tomorrow that I would say, “Wow – that will be challenging […] Back in 2013, after visiting the Shetland Islands, we headed to Inverness. Our first stop, Loch Ness, to see the Loch Ness Monster. We ended up lunching at The Dores Inn before wandering around and visiting Steve Feltham, the Nessie Hunter. Amazingly, I actually saw Nessie that day – through my camera. Unfortunately, I […] |
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