Back, Now With Pictures!
May. 19th, 2011 04:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
krpalmerGetting back from vacation having been unable to transfer photos from my camera to my portable left me just a little concerned about whether I'd be able to get them on to my desktop and provide a little more proof of what I'd been doing. However, the camera continued to work with my regular computer, and I now have a small selection of them uploaded.
I suppose that I knew enough about Japan to think I really had arrived when I started seeing the vending machines. However, they were at least similar to ones I saw in South Korea a few days later.
I do sort of think myself lucky that, in the hour or so I spent ashore on my own in Kobe, I happened on a large electronics store with models and the like upstairs. After telling myself that the anime-manga-"modern visual culture" continuum wasn't anywhere as "respectable" in Japan as someone in the first flush of anime fandom might think, it made for a pleasant sort of surprise.
The temple complex in South Korea that I visited had lanterns hung to commemorate Buddha's birthday, which made it very picturesque.
By the time we got to Russia, the weather was getting somewhat cold and grim.
After spending so long under overcast skies (and at times on rough seas), it was very pleasant to have the sun out in Sitka, Alaska.
Before leaving on the cruise, I had wondered about taking another one and seeing more of Japan, but now I'm sort of wondering if I should just brave the flight back as well as the flight there. In any case, those thoughts are still sort of for the future, and I'll just say it's good to be back.
I suppose that I knew enough about Japan to think I really had arrived when I started seeing the vending machines. However, they were at least similar to ones I saw in South Korea a few days later.
I do sort of think myself lucky that, in the hour or so I spent ashore on my own in Kobe, I happened on a large electronics store with models and the like upstairs. After telling myself that the anime-manga-"modern visual culture" continuum wasn't anywhere as "respectable" in Japan as someone in the first flush of anime fandom might think, it made for a pleasant sort of surprise.
The temple complex in South Korea that I visited had lanterns hung to commemorate Buddha's birthday, which made it very picturesque.
By the time we got to Russia, the weather was getting somewhat cold and grim.
After spending so long under overcast skies (and at times on rough seas), it was very pleasant to have the sun out in Sitka, Alaska.
Before leaving on the cruise, I had wondered about taking another one and seeing more of Japan, but now I'm sort of wondering if I should just brave the flight back as well as the flight there. In any case, those thoughts are still sort of for the future, and I'll just say it's good to be back.