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Feb4
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Nov19
Even in technological Tokyo there’s still space for these vintagy public phones! I was very grateful to find them all over the city, otherwise communication would have been complicated since my Chinese phone didn’t work…
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Two examples of beautiful Japanese practicality - the metro map that tells you how many minutes away you are from other stations (it is so obvious that people want to know this yet I haven’t seen it anywhere else and constantly have to rely on all sorts of apps to figure out how long it’ll take me to get to places) and the bathroom sign explaining how to “wash your bottom” in the spectacular toilet seats that are not only warm but have all sorts of features like sounds to muffle YOUR sounds, odor absorption, all sorts of jets… Japan is bidet-heaven.
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Night-time Kyoto was about stalking Geishas around the Gion neighborhood…
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I love the excitement of getting somewhere new by myself and this song brings back those feelings…
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May27
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Can’t stop listening to this, the perfect lazy chill feeling of a very hot summer day. I love what the voice says - “Es que ahí el tiempo es muy largo, nadie lleva la cuenta de las horas y a nadie le preocupa…” (The thing is time is very long there, nobody counts the hours and nobody cares…)
It makes me think of when you’re in the air, on a train, on a car, on a bike - time stops and you’re in another sphere. You don’t have to DO anything because you are coming from and going to do whatever. I’m on the road. I’m excused. You start getting good ideas and contemplating things you wouldn’t normally stop to ponder on. The void of action attunes the senses so that we are suddenly hyper aware.
When you do arrive, hopefully there’s a time difference. You can now adopt a peculiar new rhythm – foreign to you and foreign to the new latitude – and for at least a day el tiempo es muy largo…
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Jan29
Fun video with great shots of Bejing! I want to go back there but when it’s not so cold.
I’m so happy I found this because the videos this man makes are so beautiful! You can find more of them at Albin Holmqvist.
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Asia-centric map of my trip on my apartment’s wall - at first we tried to be very accurate and cartographic and after several attempts surrendered and just did a rough “by hand” account of the world as it looks from Asia.
Shanghai to Chicago (13:15 hours) + Chicago to Miami (3 hours) + Miami to San José, Costa Rica (2:45 hours) + waiting time in between flights (8:40 hours combined) = 27:40 hours.
From Central China Time (GMT+8) to Central Standard Time (GMT-6) is 14 hours.
From 3º C to 21º C!
But I’m home! So yay! It was worth it! In the tropics for the next three weeks!
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