Devon's trip to Kyoto ILC 2012 by air, sea & land.
2012 Aug 31 Fri Grace Long teaches Mandarin
2012 Oct 13 Sat Jessica & Devon go to 南山 (Nanshan) mountain in ShenZhen
2012 Oct 15 Mon — alas, no photos but this ShenZhen airport sign.
Bazzing down Shanghai streets in the rumble seat of Eric's electric scooter - no helmets, nobody else has 'em either - I think of the E.R. jargon "donorcycle" and weakly resolve to resist the strong temptation to get one, helmet or not. Old French colonial streets right down to the plain trees and art deco buildings - we laugh over cheap sushi on a sidewalk lined with drunken expats - sorry I left my camera when a bicycle powered street vendor pedals by, mobile aquarium tanks full of exotic fish sloshing in back.
2012 Oct 16-18 Tue-Thu Aboard Su Zhou Hao from Shanghai to Osaka for fun - and I did not get seasick - when a few pangs hit I went up on deck and gazed at the radio masts tracing pendulum paths through the Milky Way and I was fine - a scopolamine-free voyage!
... too few Kyoto photos, I forgot to recharge my camera ...
I'm glad to get a place at all in Kyoto's peak foliage season -
perhaps I'm lucky those ornery real leaves remain stubbornly green,
in hilarious contrast to the lamp posts sporting plastic maple sprigs
colored orange with yellow centers.
The deceptively scrawled "Lady Sasa" singing toothbrush
in the drugstore is awfully funny too.
Took a Hogwart's-style tourist train upstream to ride a tourist boat
of ancient design down some really tame rapids in a lovely gorge
teeming with deer, herons, monkeys, turtles and that doggone green
foliage again, then biked around Zen monastary gardens most serene.
...here are too many raw images, no time to edit.
The kid in the MIT sweatshirt
loves the movie Joe's you know,
the one set in Martha's Vineyard in 1975.
Crossed-eyes stereo pairs of restaurant window.
After lunch they drove us to the boat put-in.
We saw the Jidai-Maturi on Monday.
Great-grand-daddy visited Kyoto in 1930:
