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Street of Glasgow. Sign says "Bar" outside with no other descriptor. A blue car is located outside the building.

Glasgow: The Absent Ear

There's a place in Glasgow where the presence of Van Gogh's ear is giving away more than it should.

#food-drink-reportOriginally posted: 2024/05/10

Alternative rock band on stage at Wrex the Halls in San Diego. Stage illuminated in a bluish tint.

Remembering Wrex the Halls/San Diego

Photo: when $20 got you a decent alternative rock concert in San Diego, 2012.

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2024/04/4

Kinosakionsen

Photo: December, 2023, and achieving zen in seven baths at Kinosakionsen

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2024/03/13

Oregon Trail is being played on a laptop, where a ferry (in-game) has broke loose from its moorings.

4 Years is a Long Time

News flash: burnout and taking photos are not mutually exclusive.

#newsOriginally posted: 2024/03/5

Regent Street in London; a black taxi is on the street.

Agenda: London, England (Part 1)

A selection of six restaurants and points of interest that we visited in London.

#uk-2022Originally posted: 2022/07/14

Air Canada Boeing 777-300er parked at a gate at London Heathrow airport

Air Canada: YVR-YYZ-LHR (and a Dropped Phone)

Life lessons through business class: using e-upgrades on latitude fares, and learning what happens when you drop your mobile under the seat.

#uk-2022Originally posted: 2022/07/7

The interior of a deli in the Lower East Side of Manhattan

What's in a Sandwich/LES

Photo: the debate over what a sandwich is rages on in the Lower East Side, 2018.

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/03/13

A couple reads under the trees at Shinjuku Gyoen in Tokyo, Japan

Reading

Photo Tokyo, 2017, where reading outdoors on a rainy day should be the dream.

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/02/20

On the stairwell at the Art Gallery of Alberta in Edmonton

AGA/Edmonton

Photo: curved metal, glass windows, and spontaneous photo ops in Edmonton, 2011.

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2020/02/3

POV shot of being in a go-kart in Akihabara, Tokyo

Throwing Bananas Across Rainbow Bridge

If you have an international drivers license (and a costume), why not go-kart in the busy streets of Tokyo?

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2020/01/16

The shinkansen approaches a station in western Honshu/eastern Kyushu

Intermission: Shinkansen

Train announcements overheard on the Shinkansen between Tokyo and Shin-Osaka.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/12/13

Good Night/Hustlers [Part 2]

Forced smiles and standing around - but no dancing allowed.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/11/21

Walking through the streets at night in Shinjuku

Good Night/Hustlers [Part 1]

How an attempt to go clubbing in Japan started in a British Pub

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/11/7

Rainy day at the Baraki train station in central Japan

Intermission: Trains

Train announcements overheard on a day of riding trains in northern Honshu and Tokyo.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2019/09/6

Lights above the baseball diamond at the (then) Telus Field in Edmonton

Diamond Lights

Photo: April 2006, and a reminder of the worst thing to happen as a college-age kid

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/06/20

Picture of Keanu Reeves at a restaurant in Singapore

Reeves in a Thai Restaurant

Photo: Singapore, 2019, and finding Keanu Reeves on a wall in a Thai restaurant in Purvis

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/05/9

Two urinals and a toilet in a washroom. There are no stalls.

Toilets/Boracay

Photo: someone just needs to explain this to me, found in an upscale resort in Boracay, 2019

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/04/24

Pagsanjan Falls

Photo: shooting the rapids to Pagsanjan Falls, Philippines, 2011

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/04/12

The Whitsundays

Photo: Whitsundays, 2013, and why you shouldn't give me anything to hold in the water

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/03/10

Four syphon coffee devices at Lynn Canyon Cafe, North Vancouver. Two are operating.

Syphon Coffee/Lynn Canyon

Photo: questions about this fancy coffee apparatus found in North Vancouver, 2012

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/02/13

View from the "rafters" at the Hollywood Bowl in September, 2011

Hollywood Bowl/The National

Photo: Sept. 11/2011 at the Hollywood Bowl,

#behind-the-photoOriginally posted: 2019/01/7

Snow sits on the lanterns lining the main path at Okunoin.

Beyond the Grave (in Koyasan) [Part 2]

From dinner to check-out, what it's like to stay at a temple stay in Koyasan.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/11/15

Snow falls from the rooftop of a temple in the Kongobu-ji complex in Koyasan.

Beyond the Grave (in Koyasan) [Part 1]

Finding serenity and peace at the top of a mountain cemetery in Japan.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/11/1

The eponymous Yufuin burger is available in ... Yufuin.

The Best Burger in Japan?

A bar patron in Tokyo convinces me to eat a burger in a small onsen town 10-hours away by train.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/10/19

Mount Fuji as seen from an airplane as it circles towards Narita Airport, Japan

Welcome to Japan

Arriving in Japan for the first time after a 12-hour work shift, 14-hours of flying, and a 6-hour commute.

#10-hours-to-35-northOriginally posted: 2018/10/11