document updated 17 years ago, on Jul 31, 2007
- Tokyo, Japan
- I stayed in the Westin hotel in Ebisu for several months. From one of the rooms, I could see Mount Fuji on clear days. I also stayed several months in an apartment.
- I visited Yoyogi Park one Sunday, where the rockabilly group and cosplay people were performing.
- I visited Akihabara frequently, just to shop and buy cool things (like the small $5 USB wall charger that has been hard to find in the states). On the weekends though, the street life was much more interesting
- I visited Odaiba three times with different groups of people.
- I also briefly visited the Tsukiji fish market, the daibutsu in Kamakura, and the zoo in Ueno park while the sakura were in bloom.
- I ate a ton of good food, of course, but the things I miss most are the curry (they had really good spicy Indian curry there, as well as an impressively hot Japanese curry diner with low prices), and the cheap but great sushi.
- I had to go to Singapore for ~2 days, for a quick field-test problem. My impressions were that it was rather hot, and that you couldn't spit gum on the ground without being in range of free wifi access (it's a pretty dense place, and they had a cool SMS service that would let you query the nearest wifi spot... there were usually a ton nearby).
- I camped out at the U.S. Virgin Islands for a week. We were going low-budget because two people were still in college, so it was an adventure. Island-hopping on shaky old planes was a bit scary. We got to snorkel around a reef, which was pretty cool, though I got the sunburn of my life and spent several days and nights writhing in pain on the tent floor. Since luggage weight was an issue for air travel, a lot of people ended up leaving tents/tarp/beachtoys/etc. at the campground when they left, and there were probably some items that just got eternally passed around.
