One thing I hadn't expected about living in New York? Laundromat living. Taking all my clothes on my back and hauling them half a block to be whip-washed and tumbledried, and maybe folding the contents of my sock drawer on the long table while I'm waiting for the sweats to dry ( Read more... )

After three hours on the morning ferry, we landed in snow covered Hakodate and had... melon-flavored ice cream. Yubari melon, I remember. They were selling it at the base of the tower, the one that stands just off the corner of Goryokaku Fort ( Read more... )

The morning after the best oyster dinner in the whole world, we pranced off quite early and separated. A last look at pretty Matsushima,


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I landed in Narita, picked up my JR Pass, and hopped the shinkansen to Sendai before it was even dark. A lovely lady in red met me at the Matushima station.

We strolled over the tracks the next morning to go find a shrine and some foods.
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And so yesterday, for the second year in a row, I spent Valentine's Day heading back to New York ( Read more... )

This just in, Japan also has jackasses. Some of them drive buses.

HAKODATE IS LOVELY and covered in white fluffy (kinda wet) snow. It turns out snow angels are hard to stand up from. I ended up punching mine to get out of it and it looked like it had a chestburster a la Alien.The shopping's nice too. Also Japan's oldest concrete telephone pole is ( Read more... )

A thousand blessings upon the heads of All Nippon Airways. May they prosper on their well-earned merits ( Read more... )

Dear internet,

Quitting RP, off to Japan. See you later. ♥

Love,

Lina

Do everyone a favor, will you? Go on the World of Warcraft forums for a week. Under a girl's name.

Be a girl for a week. That's it. Seven days. You can afford to take that much vacation from being Mark Zuckerberg.

And then you may try to tell me we don't need pseudonyms on the internet ( Read more... )

French countryside at dawn: picturesque as shit.

More breaking news as it develops.