The teeth that ate Tokyo

[tallyhawk]

I had been planning a trip to Japan for June with a friend. We were going to do it "all" in 15 days- mountainside temples, bullet trains, sumo

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[littlepinkrobot]

I recommend some kind of cross country, amtrak tour of the US. Honestly, America is so incredibly beautiful and there is so much to see!

[tallyhawk]

it's true! i travelled out west quite a bit in my early teens, but I've seen almost none of the south or the midwest. have you really gone that far on amtrak? i've heard sketch things...

[_goodthings]

for 2,000 you can live in prague or poland for a year

[tallyhawk]

i would love live in prague. from everything i've heard from you, my friend jamie, and milan kundera, it sounds like a magical place.

[nomoreheritage]

yeah but, now you can come to my iron chef-type cook-off on June 2. Which is almost as good as fifteen days in Japan, in my mind. I have a good imagination.

[tallyhawk]

i am all over it, i love a cookoff! i wonder what the secret ingredient will be?

[marmelady]

i would have come to japan anyhow. we could hang out, plus if you spent that time in kyoto, rather than tokyo it would be seriously cheaper and way more interesting (in my opinion). However, since you have chosen the cheaper (read:LAMER) route, i suggest you think about this: you can move to the country-side of japan, learn to farm by trade from a very old man, and likely be offered free land and a house and then you can live in the middle of nowhere, japan for almost free. (this is actually possible. young people won't live in the countryside anymore so the farm land is being abandoned. sad.)

OR you could build a giant robot.

[tallyhawk]

hitting you up for crashspace in kyoto was definitly part of my plan! but alas, a major component of this trip was the big Ruby conference, and my now-lame friend Marcel is my Ruby sensei. so it doesn't make sense to go without him.

love your blog! though now it makes me jealous...