I’m finally getting ready to go on a much needed vacation! My friend Matt had asked me to go to Orlando with him and his fiancé for a few days. I decided that I was going to extend my trip and fly to Florida early to do a bit of a road trip. In less…

One of the things that I enjoy most about traveling is experiencing different cultures. That’s one of the reasons why I like to travel for at least two weeks. The first week is usually spent adjusting to time changes and picking up the local culture. After that then you finally get to experience the culture…

As I sit in the first class lounge at the airport drinking free alcohol, I can’t help but think about how much I’ve enjoyed my time in Japan.  Ok, I had to mention that just because :)  This past weekend I ended up not doing too much.  This was because Friday night Tim and I…

Since I was originally not planning on having this entire weekend in Tokyo, I wasn’t quite sure what I wanted to do.  I decided I was going to take it slow this weekend and just check out a few places that I hadn’t seen yet or wanted to go back to.  So Saturday I went…

It turns out that my stay in Japan is going to extend another week.  I was supposed to return home this Sunday, but will end up being next Sunday instead.  I’m happy that I’ll have some more time to check out the area, but the fact that I’m staying because things at work aren’t going…

My weekend finally started on Friday night at 10:30pm when we FINALLY left work! It figures that a major issue is reproduced at 5pm! Anyway, Tim and I headed to Roppongi to meet up with his girlfriend and get some Mexican food (I know Mexican food in Japan!) and then head to this bar that…

So this was my first full weekend in Tokyo. What was I going to do? Tokyo is such a large city! Well, the weekend began Friday night when Mike (one of the other engineers that is here) and I went to Roppongi to get some dinner and drinks. We needed it after the week we…

I remember sometime back in high school that some cellular company was trying to put a base station at the top of the hill of my parent’s neighborhood.  There were a ton of meetings about this with the entire neighborhood in an uproar.  No one (well pretty much no one) wanted that base station put…

After a 14 hour flight and almost 24 hours of total travel time, I finally made it to Tokyo to start my training as a ninja. I figure this skill will add quite nicely to the kung fu training I had in China last year. I’m not sure if my next bit of training will…

I found out today that I’m going to Japan in two and a half weeks for work!  I’ve been wanting to go to Japan for awhile and I’m glad that I’m being given the opportunity to go for work.  Japan is quite expensive after all :)  Stay tuned for updates as I have the chance…