Tag: Japan

Nerdtour 2012: Apartment

I did a video walkaround of my apartment in Monzennakacho, just like the one I did of the hotel room I stayed in on Day 1. No video trickery was used to make it look smaller!
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Nerdtour 2012: Kiyosumi Gardens, Tokyo

Here are some photos I took at the Kiyosumi Gardens, a small municipal park in Tokyo, just about a mile or so from my apartment.
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Nerdtour 2012: A Garden, A Meal, A Clock, Some Boats, and The “Statue of Liberty”

Well, I’m going to have to do this one in stages, but guess I can give you a little photo teaser of what everything I did on the first day (and dang near wore myself out doing!)
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Nerdtour 2012: Phase Shift

This is pretty bad, I had intended to write something every day, but since I did so much on Tuesday (it’s Wednesday morning about 6 AM as I write) that I think I’m just going to write when I can about some of the things I did, whenever I get a chance and the energy!
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Nerdtour 2012: Day 1, and lessons learned (the hard way)

Land ho!
I only took a couple of pictures of Chiba, just south of the airport and the first land seen when coming in to Narita.

So, okay, technically it’s Day 1 and 2, but I don’t feel like counting the day that I travelled here, although it was semi-eventful, in that I navigated the Narita airport support system as well as the Japan Rail system, at least to a small degree!

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Nerdtour 2012: Touchdown!

Oh, man, what a flight! I definitely think going without sleep helps on long international flights (of course flying first class doesn’t hurt!) because I was too tired for even my basic take-of and landing fears! I slept enough during the 13 hours from Dallas to Narita to arrive alert enough to make it through immigration and customs with only tiny goofs.

I wasn’t awake enough to avoid one big problem, though, but it turned into a learning experience, more on that later!

Back to sleep, off to get the keys to my apartment in a few hours!

Nerdtour 2012: Liftoff, we have liftoff!

And I’m off! (we’ve known that for years ) Took off from National Airport just a few minutes late but made it to Dallas just a bit early. I decided to take the Skylink train between Terminal C to Terminal D, since I had the luxury of time. I was pleasantly reminded by the musical prelude to the arrival at each stop, of how JR trains play a different short tune when arriving and departing. Just another thing to look forward to!

Next entry will hopefully be from Narita airport!

Nerdtour 2012: T-Minus 29 hours and counting…

Oh, boy, it’s getting down to the wire, one more (partial) day of work, then I do the final prep work for the trip.  One last go-around with laundry, packing up the laptop and a hard drive, assorted re-arrangements for the oddments and fripperies that I’ll be taking (cables, batteries, toothbrush, cash, books, etc), and then a short nap.  The plan is to stay awake from midnight or so until I head to the airport at 4:00 AM.  Fortunately I’m only about a 10 minute cab ride from Reagan National, and once safely ensconced in my (first class!  woot!) seat on the plane I can grab an hour or so further nap en route to Dallas.

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