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So after more than two years in Asia, and over a year of traveling, I'm back in Canada. It's weird ( Read more... )

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Or Nippon or whatev.

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Photos of New Zealand:
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Photos of Japan:
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So the robot musuem in Nagoya (the entire reason I went there) is closed forever.
As of last monday.
argh.

so now I:m in kyoto. I seriously don:t care about temples anymore. and my guide book is laughable. It says that whne you imagine japan you imagine temples and mountains and shit. No I don:t! I imagine robots and crazy shit happening. blah

Oh, also a new, and entirely inpenetrable, version of my name. Makkew? Mak-que? something like that. Multiple Nipponese people were saying that today.
Like I know th is hard to say (hell, loads of english speaking people can:t say it that well), but I guess I got used to Matchu which I heard in korea and other parts of asia.
eh.

Today I hitched from Tokyo to Nagoya. The long way. It took a while, but I got there eventually ( Read more... )

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