Konichiwa, Ohayo Gozaimasu, Konbanwa everyone.
Last entry was the honeymoon 🐝🌛 I took with my (now ex) wife after our wedding in 2011.
Check it out here.
MAIN BLOG & BACKGROUND
But now we are going to step back even further in time. The year was 2005. I had my first big career change after 6 years at a company. I was hired there in 2005-Sep. Within a month, they had sent me and another new hire to the headquarters in Japan 🇯🇵 for many weeks. I was so amped, I can't even begin to explain.
Anyway, enough about that. As Mark says, "Let's 👍 ... Get Into It!"
This was back in the day when companies were willing to let you have some comfort on a flight. And I got to fly business class for the trans-ocean leg of the trip, from Los Angeles, California, US&A 🇺🇸 to Tokyo, Japan 🇯🇵. This was the only time I have flown on ANA, but the experience was really unique compared to US-based airlines. One example, the bulkhead which usually blocks your view of the flight attendants in their jump seats, had a window in it. And there was a point when the flight attendants sat down and bowed to the passengers through that window. I have never seen that again, probably because I'm based in the US 🇺🇸 and they don't do that. Anyway, this is the first of many trips I've made to Japan 🇯🇵. Those other trips will be recorded later, so hang tight.
Because this trip was abnormally long, I think it will be more telling to break it up into a telling of "things" rather than a "chronological" story. (Plus I've already done this for my last trip to Japan 🇯🇵, which will be put here as soon as I can get the file from my former employer.)
And each of the "things" will need to be their own blog-page because of resource credits. Give me a break, I have over 700 photos from this trip. Don't fret, I'll filter them out for the "bests".
SUB-BLOGS
So, let's see what the pictures will provide by the following categories:
- Autovoitures (sorry, just relived an "O Brother Where Art Though" moment)
- Animals (not just cats, you've been warned)
- Shrines & Temples
- Castles
- Gardens, Plants, & Scenery
- Food & Drink
- Hotel Rooms
- Why Japan? (a la akidearest from the Yooz Toobz)
- Personal Photos (sorry everyone, these are just for me & people I know for reals)
Each of these links should take you to the sub-blog (is that a word?), and the page for the sub-blog should have a return to this page, so you can see all the things (except the last one).
CONCLUSION
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