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Here’s a list of planning details that needed attention as we got closer to traveling to Japan with our nephew and his dad.

My partner’s uncle was a soldier in occupied Japan at the end of the Pacific War. The story could’ve been so different.

Will a radioactive drug give me atomic superpowers?

I needed to get as far away as possible from Elon Musk. It was time to migrate all my Tweets to my Web site.

Somewhat arbitrarily, I’ve selected one Micropost from each month of 2022.

I hiked to two temples of an 88-temple pilgrimage and photographed the plumbing.

I’m home from a solo three-week trip to Japan. As usual, I made it up as I went along based on research, past experience, and whim. I visited three of Japan’s main islands: Honshu, Kyushu, and Shikoku. Hokkaido didn’t make the list this time because winter was setting in there and I didn’t want to carry winter clothes.

This evening I flew 700 miles from Sendai (Miyagi) to Fukuoka rather than taking three bullet trains. At the time of booking I was happy to pay $66 extra to fly. Current wisdom says flying has advantages over high-speed rail for journeys over about 500 miles (about 800 km). This data seems reasonable if we… Continue reading Bullet Train vs. Plane