it’s been a busy week. i’ve been frantically emailing back and forth with a friend who is traveling to japan from canada. we’ve been trying to sort out some semblance of an itinerary and book the hostels. so starting saturday i’m going to be zigzagging all over central honshu, starting with an overnight stay in a temple in koyasan and enjoying some much anticipated shojin ryori.
i’ve also been arranging my ticket back to canada and finally decided to take advantage of a stopover in beijing. trying to sort that out gave me itchy feet (why not go home overland? by ship? why not go via korea? etc. etc.), but i finally convinced myself that really, i need to go home and start working towards this financial freedom goal of mine. enough of this bumming around.
so now i’m going to have to do some research on beijing. i’ll only really have 2 days. i think i’ll go to the great wall one day and check out the forbidden city the other day. so much to think about!
July 11th, 2007 at 8:10 am
A stop over in Beijing, that would definitely be fun, but I have a feeling you’ll wish it was a trip and not a stop over
Are you flying back home because you’re done you’re work term there or are you just done with Japan and want to come home?
July 11th, 2007 at 10:13 am
a little bit of both
say, why isn’t your site working?
July 12th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
it’s down right now because every now and then the mysql server falls apart and doesn’t go back up for a bit. can’t say when it’ll go back up but it always does and everything seems to be intact. I’ve tried to find a free mysql host that’s more reliable than the one provided by my freehost but I was out of luck. maybe there’s a better one out there now, I’m not sure. so for now I just deal with it. I don’t really mind when it goes down but sometimes it gets annoying.