Well! My first censorship issue with the Chinese government arises the first day I’m here.  Evidently, many of the sites I use to communicate with everyone (including Google, my email accounts on Google, and Facebook) are being blocked. I can’t get to them. I get a server timeout when I try to access them. And updating my WordPress site takes a LOOOOONG time. Grrr.....

Took a tour of the recreated village from the Joseon dynasty about an hour south of Seoul.   TripAdvisor Review here.   What I did NOT include in that review were pictures.  So here are some.  I’ll add more later.  This is just a picture post!      

  So I’m sitting here at Coffee Smith, in the Itaewon district of Seoul Korea, and I’m noticing the connection I have to the rest of the world of people.  The place is big for a coffee shop, contoured concrete walls, exposed concrete ceiling with open ductwork.  Tables are rough hewn dark wood, solidly constructed, some upholsdtered with dark faux leather, some...

I’ve been having so much fun looking around, that I’ve neglected my blog. Sorry gang. I’ll see what I can do about that. I HAVE been putting all my daily stuff on the What I Did page (take a look if you haven’t), but it’s time to start putting up snippets of what’s been going on during this trip. It’s been almost 2 weeks since I landed in Tokyo, and now find myself...

There are loads of shrines and temples in Kyoto, so not all of them get the attention from the tourists. This one has just one tourist enjoying it. The door was open, and no one is here to greet me. No ticket booth, no signs saying “do not walk here”, no maintenance men. Just me and cicadas. With the sounds of distant thunder, maybe bringing rain, maybe just “heat”...