Nothing much in the travel front recently.
It's Xmas season which = high season for airfares and the like.
But I did upload pix for November's last trip in the Gallery. That's for all of you who want to see pix and not read commentary...
Just go back to the splash page and select "Gallery", then Int'l Travel, then "Beeg Asia Trip 2004".
I'll add pithy comments in the next few days. So you WILL have to read!
muuuuhuuuhaaahaaa!
Merry Christmas to all of you that are actually reading this !
Xmas tree in Union Square, San Francisco.
In the background is the St. Francis Hotel on Powell Street, where the cable cars rumble up and down the hill.
I took this pic last night (Xmas eve) before it got cold cold cold! 4 degrees celsius!
Brrrrr....
When I returned to Hong Kong after flying in from Beijing during my trip last month, I saw Xmas lights beginning to go up.
I like the idea of decorating buildings. Makes the harbor look even more interesting...
Get it? Parts of the building look like peppermint sticks!
This is Sakura-jima, an active volcano off the southern tip of Kyushu near the town of Kagoshima.
Part of the cone was blown off during one of its frequent eruptions a few years back. That's why it doesn't look as conical as Fuji-san.
Unfortunately, this is as close as we were able to get to it since we only had a few hours in town.
Since it's still an active volcano (note the smoke above), there are concrete shelters all over. If you hear the sirens, you duck into here.
Does concrete stand up to lava?
Somewhere between Ginza and the JR Shinagawa station. This was around 2200 hours on a weeknight from my last night in Tokyo, after dinner with Yumi-chan.
We had a big blustery storm blow through here last night.
Gusts up to 50 MPH. It blew the trash cans over. Lots of loud rain too. Fierce.
Then, as is with all storms, as it left, it left sunshine and fresh air in its wake.
But I half expected to see this morning:
Fuji-San in the distance and lots of Y300 umbrellas left at the JR station near the entry wickets...
People walking through Wan Chai in the morning and being able to see TST clearly in the brisk and clean air...
Being able to walk three blocks down Orchard Road before breaking out in a sweat because the humidity isn't quite THAT bad yet! =P
Yeah, I got it bad. I NEED to get out there somehow...just need to get outta here.
So after 4 nights with 8+ hours of sleep and sampling every over-the-counter remedy (TheraFlu night formula works best, BTW), I can say that I'm recovering.
I still say that they should ban sick people from planes. Of course, if I could have fit a SIN trip to the end of this trip, I never would have sat next to the sick guy on my flight because I would be on a different flight than the one I was on...
wouldacouldashoulda.
BAN THEM BAN THEM BAN THEM!!!
They shouldn't be flying if they're freekin' sick! And they should NOT be seated to ME!
I traveled in Asia for three weeks. I suffered (and sweat) in the heat of Hong Kong, sweated and chilled in Japan for over a week, froze in Beijing, stumbled into Shenzhen and sweat in the then not so hot as before Hong Kong before I left for California.
I got seated by some sick (COFF COFF COFFFFF!) Brit who lives in Mexico. He was coughing and sneezing throughout the entire flight.
I had a mask in my baggage from the SARS time. Should have put it on.
Come to think of it, he should've had a mask on for the consideration of the others on the plane.
But nooooo, in-consideration is the name of the game here!
I'm sick now. Great. Hope the Theraflu nips this in the bud.
Freekin' sick people! Kick them off the damn plane!
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