So it may or may not be an pneumonia. Holding out to see if the wheezing and cracking in the lungs gets better with the antibiotics or not and if I don’t see marked improvement in 48 hours I’ve got a scrip for a chest x-ray. But worse than that, my doctor, who is a […]
I am reminded of Margery Williams’s Velveteen Rabbit. That’s the one with the stuffed bunny who dreams of being real but is tossed into the fire when his owner gets super sick, right? They burn all the kids’ stuff because he has the black death or something? Scarlet Fever maybe? I don’t know what I […]
The sun rises outside the window. We are descending into Dallas Fort Worth and thanks to crossing the international date line, we are arriving before we departed. I haven’t slept in days… I couldn’t sleep the last night in Tokyo and I was able to log maybe fifteen minutes on the 11 hour flight to DFW. […]
I’m sitting at the Narita Airport waiting to board my flight back to the US. Today’s Japan Times has a few photos from the marathon yesterday… including a choice tidbit worth a mention here: Amongst the “fancy dress” runners was a Michael Jackson who moonwalked over the finish line. That’s bad. And by bad, I […]
It was cold at the start but not as cold as I thought it would be. In the direct sun, it was downright warm. But any breeze or any shade made it cold enough to cut through whatever layers one had… and though I had gone for running pants I opted for a short sleeve […]
Third time’s still not the charm. But I really wanted the “REAL” Godzilla, the man in suit Godzilla, for this photobomb project. It’s still not quite right but it’s closer… maybe that’s good enough. But in my head it’s supposed to be perfect. Perhaps if Godzilla has taught us anything it’s that it doesn’t NEED […]
Two thousand runners. Five hundred Japanese and 1500 foreigners. All coming together to run as a group for no other purpose than to foster amity. This is the Friendship Run 2017. It’s a 4K, up and down a plaza near the Tokyo Big Sight. A Travelling Fit Australian from Perth, nice guy by the name […]
The original photobomb post rendered weird — this is what happens when you do things on your phone. Here’s a better pic I did on my Surface this morning in a matter of minutes while I wait to head off to the Friendship Run.
When one can get the ATM to work in a foreign land, it’s a much better conversion rate than using Thomas Cook or some other money exchange. I just checked my bank account and the withdrawal I was finally able to do the other day at a Tokyo 7-11, even with its “ATM convenience fee” […]
Editor’s Note: I finally finished writing this on February 24, 2017 — it is in reference to our Day Tour on February 23, 2017. In the morning as we were waiting to be checked in by the tour operator, I saw a number of runners coming back from the 2KM (or more) route around the […]