Category: Travel

  • A Wedding in New York, and a Baby Shower in DallasA Wedding in New York, and a Baby Shower in Dallas

    Lisa and Starry Night Lisa and Warhol’s Marylin Dave and Thomas Sweet Ice Cream The Bent Spoon Ice Cream Halo Pub Hoagie Haven Lisa and Dave at the flower gardens Last week Lisa and I went to New York for the wedding of our friends Lena Park and Ben Grenier. This will be Lisa’s second […]

  • A Vacation in Singapore and Indonesia

    Welcome to Nirwana Gardens Nirwana Gardens Beach Mangrove tour Mangrove tour charcoal mound A bar in the ocean We took a vacation and went to Singapore and the Bintan Island in Indonesia. We flew into Singapore from Japan on Tuesday evening, arriving a little before midnight, and went to a cheap hotel in Singapore. We […]

  • Fukuroda Falls

    Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls Fukuroda Falls shrine Tokyo Night Driving All picture in the set. Last weekend R. and I took a day trip out to see Fukuroda Falls. It is about three hours by car to the North of Tokyo. We took the car out (for the first time in months) and […]

  • Adventures with Flat Everett

    Flat Everett Goes to Shinjuku Station Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett catches a train Flat Everett rides in style Flat Everett makes some Santa-style friends Flat Everett meets a sushi Chef Flatt Everett meets my niece Flat Everett is a new friend of ours that arrived in the mail the other day. My […]

  • Friday 2009-05-29

    The plan is to leave at 6:30am to get to the airport by 7:30am to catch our 10:30am flight back to Japan. We were about ten minutes late leaving. Not bad! We got gas, returned the car (which took extra long due to my rental car exchange / return mixup previously) and got to the […]

  • Thursday 2009-05-28

    1 Thursday 2009-05-28 Hanauma Bay Stamp Overlook of the bay Fish! Oysters (Risa loves them) Chinese steamed snapper Ahi Katsu. This stuff was seriously delicious. Bacon Wrapped Steak. I can not think of a better thing in which to wrap steak. Dinner at 360 on the Rise Chocolate Wontons. Those are some good Wontons. 1.1 […]

  • Wednesday 2009-05-27: Big Island

    Go! to Big Island Ken’s House of pancakes Pancakes blood sausage burger? Kilauea Volcano Thurston Lava Tube Ning’s Thai Restaurant in Pahoa Lunch at Ning’s Then back to Oahu and dinner at Roy’s 1.13.1 Volcanoes! We spoke to Eric the day before or two days before and he was going to Hawaii’s Big Island after […]

  • Tuesday, 2009-05-26

    View from Pali Lookout View from Pali Lookout Giovanni’s Shrimp Giovanni’s Shrimp Snorkeling – Risa found a fish! Snorkeling – Dave found a book! Legend’s seafood pan fried noodles Legend’s Seafood hot and spicy pork Today we had one major thing on the schedule: go snorkeling. I don’t remember what happened in the morning, but […]

  • Monday 2009-05-25

    1 Monday 2009-05-25 Risa, Alana, Jana, Satoko, and Aiko at the Luis Vuitton VIP Room Louis Vuitton VIP Room Louis Vuitton Cake Mustang at Kahala Dad, Alana, Risa at dinner at Gordon Biersch After drinks at the Moana Surfrider Monday morning was consumed with packing. We had lots of stuff. More than we started with. […]

  • Wedding

    Wedding photo set Wedding Ceremony Getting married The beautiful Bride and Bridesmaids We got married on Sunday. It was great. My thanks go out to Eric Han, Ron DeVilla, my family, the Tanaka family, Yuzuna (because she is so super cute), Eric Tschetter, Sayuri, Eric Han, and Tomoko for their translation help, Carl Sable, Jon […]