April 2019: Onuma Park, Japan (大沼公園)
Today may be April Fool’s Day but this post is no prank. Being the first day of the month, I’ve updated this website’s header image…
Writing in 2018: Notable Posts
I published a lot of posts to this website in 2018 and while gathering the data on 2018’s writing statistics I also jotted down which…
Every selfie from Asia 2017
While I was wandering around Japan and Korea last year I tried to remember each day to either take a selfie with my phone or…
Asia 2017 Travelogue Posts Recap
Last week I finally wrapped up the series of travelogue posts that chronicled my 2017 journey across Japan and South Korea. For those that missed…
Tokyo (Second Visit): The Calm After The Storm
I arrived back at Narita International Airport in Japan as Typhoon Lan was unleashing its fury across almost the entire nation. Thankfully the weather wasn’t…
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Busan (Second Visit): View from the Roof
A short flight from Jeju Island brought me back to Busan, the city I had visited just a few days earlier. Originally my plan had…
“Oh right, that happened”
While I was in Japan and Korea last year I’d end each day by writing out the day’s events in a notebook that I had…
Jeju Island: Life on the Road
About 55 miles south of the Korean mainland is the island of Jeju. A friend of mine who used to live in Korea had suggested…
Busan: East to West
I’m not sure how KTX trains in Korea compare to the shinkansen trains of Japan, but one thing they definitely have in common is punctuality.…
Seoul & The DMZ: Past & Present
From Fukuoka to Incheon International Airport is about a one hour, twenty minute flight; long enough to mentally practice basic Korean words and phrases and…
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