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Thursday, April 2, 2026 We are in our awesome hotel, on the 15th floor overlooking a park on the roof of a shopping area. Keith is staring out the window trying to figure out which way the ocean is so he knows where to look for Godzilla coming. He is making a plan! Our train […]

Wednesday, April 1, 2026 We had a breakfast buffet this morning at the hotel. It had Western and Japanese food. Mike and Keith tried the cold rolled eggs, and Mike commented that it proved they can cook eggs; they just don’t want to. The “scrambled” eggs were the runniest I’ve ever encountered. Keith found a

Tuesday, March 31, 2026 it just cannot be overstated how great Mike has been at organizing our transportation. Kristine and I love watching Keith and Mike stand at machines or talk to transportation people while we do nothing at all. We took two different trains from Kyoto to Kanazawa this morning. It was great to

Monday, March 30, 2026 We visited a bamboo forest today. We, and a lot of other people, walked through towering bamboo. I know it grows quickly, but it was all tall. I wondered why there wasn’t some new bamboo. It was pretty. There was a garden at the end of the bamboo that had once

Sunday, March 29, 2026 I woke up at 4am and had to check on the No Kings rallies happening at home. I had a picture from Donna of Nancy and pictures from friend Jean. Friend Cheryl had listed some things she heard that she really liked. I liked them too. We are all connected. None

Saturday, March 28, 2026 Since we didn’t use our breakfast coupons yesterday, we took Mike and Kristine to breakfast in the hotel today. Mike used his dictionary and was able to get the eggs for Kris and I cooked through. Delicious. He and Keith enjoyed using the rice machine – you set a bowl under

Friday, March 27, 2026 We all went to 7-11 for breakfast. It was a definite upgrade from eating in the hotel restaurant. We shared a chicken cutlet sandwich, grapes, and each had our new favorite, a souffle with whipped cream and custard (think a really good homemade twinkie). All of yesterday’s perseverance in getting working

Thursday, March 26, 2026 Getting our seven-day rail pass was not easy. Well, it was for me because I just stood away and let everyone else work on it. They did a terrific job. It took a metro ride to a train station, then a train ride to a different train station, waiting in one,

Wednesday, March 25, 2026 Barbara uploaded some pictures from our day in Osaka, then promptly fell asleep. So, I’ll put all of the pictures here with a brief caption under each to let you know what it is. These may or may not be in any order that makes sense. I’m tired too, so I’m