NintendoMonopoly on 12 November 2008
| The Ghost of RubangB said: My PC was the one that died on me. I was just using my wife's Mac until I could get the PC back up and running. Now that she'll get her Mac back to herself I gotta delete all the pagans I left on there. In August 2007, I bought a new Leica D-Lux 3 camera and then I spent 3 weeks traveling around Tokyo, Hiroshima (for the anniversary of the bomb), Miyajima Island, Kyoto, Mishima, Mt. Fuji, Osaka, Matsushima, and back to Tokyo to go to Puroland. I was working 2 jobs while I was at community college and I saved up money for years, then in the summer before I went back to a university to finish up a degree, I bought myself a plane ticket and one night in a capsule inn in Shinjuku, Tokyo, and just went alone with no plans and no maps. Every day I hopped online, found somewhere interesting to go, ate the weirdest stuff I could find (and photographed everything I ate for all 3 weeks), got on a train, met people, took pictures, and tried to find a place to sleep. I crashed in capsules, trains, ryokans, hotels, hostels, and internet cafes across the country, met some friends who let me crash in the living room of their house in Kyoto, and slept one night in the airport. It was the best 3 weeks of my life and I brought back 10 gigs of photos and videos, and a sexxee gold pouch for my DS. And I ate fugu and it was delicious. |
no plans and no maps!!! That's crazy cool. Makes me think of the movie Into The Wild, in the way that Chris McCandless knew that it was trip he had to make and just when and did it. I thought it might have been for a job. I've had to travel a lot for jobs in the past. I always find it interesting how there's stuff to do that locals just seem to take for granted. Do you at least speak fluent Japanese? You would think, you would need to, to be on your own and get around like you did. I mean you really went all over the place.
