We sat and drank coffee and experienced a Japanese Buffett for breakfast and watched the activity in the Port of Kobe. Wow to all of it! Both of us feel more human this morning than anticipated. We are heading down to register for the conference next. It’s been fun finding the Oceans scientists in theContinue reading “Breakfast over Kobe”
Category Archives: Japan
Arrived!
My bio-clock had me at about 2 am in Osaka and I was having to navigate a bus, a ferry, another bus, and finally a wall of train ticket kiosks. We just stared at the kiosks and our brains just went into sleep deprived psychosis. I couldn’t manage the train or anymore decisions or ambiguity.Continue reading “Arrived!”
Camels!
We got off the plane in Osaka and wound through the weird voluminous international terminal spaces that seem to belong to every airport. We hit the first choke point which seemed to be all about disease screening. I saw the signs and whipped out my camera. Kaety was giving me warnings not to take photosContinue reading “Camels!”
“Don’t Guess on the immigration form!”
By Kaety We have made it to Osaka Japan. It was long, my knees ache, but I did get hours of interrupted reading, which is rare for me. Mark took charge of the customs paperwork. He decided guessing on the name of the hotel we are staying at and not providing the address would beContinue reading ““Don’t Guess on the immigration form!””
Japan: Sterotypes
Kaety and I are heading to Portland tomorrow and then on to Japan to the Marine Technology/Oceans Conference in Kobe. We are jazzed! We’ve never been to Japan and I’m excited to dive into a completely different culture. I’ve been reading the Fodors Guide to Japan all month and as I flipped through the bibleContinue reading “Japan: Sterotypes”