http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/Savage/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Savage en-us Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:21:41 +0000 Mon, 09 Nov 2009 23:21:41 +0000 Today I took off with one of the guys from the Guest house a fellow Brit by the name of Indrin. Well hersquos kinda a brit but thatrsquos a minor technicality. Anyhow I had no plans for the day so he mentioned something about having to go to Tokyo Station to buy tickets for the Shinshokin Bullet Train to Kyoto. Asked if I could tag along and that was that. Tokyo Station is a pretty damn http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-718.html A little background on this trip. One of my best friends Dave and his wife Carina had come down to Las Vegas for my wedding that never happened a whole other story. After a week and a half of partying hard with them I decided I'd take the time and money I'd put away for the honeymoon on a little holiday and go back to Seattle Washington with them. So I did. Please keep in mind I've been http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-401.html We start the day off rolling into downtown Seattle and park right outside of Vons which is a local bar restaurant with bad reviews where Dave has a friend Scott that runs a Coffee Stand. Scott hooks us up with some of the best coffee I've ever had and just kicks back chatting with us for a good 30 minutes or so. Everyone seems so friendly out here like they all have time for you maybe this http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-402.html Wow... I don't even know what to say about this. We did a 4 mile trek up a mountain at the top was the most beautiful lake called Melakwa Lake. Melakwa stands for Mosquito luckily for me I didn't see any must've been a little chilly for them. We picked a spot under some trees to have a little picnic as it started raining. Oh man... this was just it So peaceful and serene cool beautiful i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-403.html My last day in Seattle Dave had to go back to work so Jeremy planned for a few hours on Lake Washington. So I get a call around 1130 or so saying that he's headed over. I finish getting most of my stuff packed since I have to leave Daves around 430ish to get to the Airport on time. Carina comes along since Dave is at work and we head to Jeremys parents house. After we remove the tarp from th http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Washington/Seattle/blog-404.html So last weekend I decided on a whim that I wanted to go to Japan. Now I've been saving for a trip to Europe next year but I really need a break from work. So after making a joke with some friends about flying over to Japan to check out the premiere of a new movie I found that the flights were very reasonable. I went ahead and booked the flight booked a Hostel then asked for time off work. L http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-464.html This was a long and boring trip hence the long and boring story. Enjoy my insanity. Man what a night. Got off work at midnight went around and did some last minute packing and laundry and thought Irsquod have no problem dozing off at about 1am or so. Alas that didnrsquot seem to work out. I guess I was more anxious about the trip than I thought. After tossing and turning for a while I go http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-496.html Sunday just didnrsquot start off how I anticipated. I expected to sleep in till 8 or 9 since Irsquod been awake for so long but ended waking up at about 4am. There wasnrsquot a chance of getting back to sleep either so after an hour of trying I went up to the lounge to play around on the Internet. Of course at 5am everyone was still asleep Andrew the Aussie from the station was asle http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-504.html To tell you the truth I canrsquot remember what I did during the daytime this day. But according to the pictures I spent the night partying away in Shibuya with Yoshi and Ryan which clues me in to the last part of the day A lazy day of sitting around the Guest House and walking around Azabujuban. I called Yoshi up from the now trusty pay phone at the Mini Mart and arranged to meet h http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-562.html After last nights entertainment I was doubting Yoshi was going to be up for going to Ueno Parkhellip heck I was doubting I could do anything today. But I finally fell out of bed hung around in the lounge for a little while then Ryan asked if I wanted to go to view of Tokyo in Roppongi. I needed to get some good pictures so I figured this would be the opportune time to take care of busine http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-563.html Very lazy day well more of a recovery day I suppose. Also my last day and itrsquos making me very sad. I really donrsquot want to leave Japanhellip Irsquove had such a wonderful time and I feel that for the most part I could just hang out at the guest house all day and have a good time. In the short time Irsquove been here Irsquom quasi pro at telling people where to go and wha http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Japan/Tokyo/blog-564.html For the past few months I've been getting antsy again. I don't get much time to travel working two jobs and all but sometimes you just have to get away for your own sanity. Well sanity can sometimes be lost just figuring out where to go at least for me.First I thought about going back to Japan. I had such a great time in April that I would love to go back. But after thinking about it I wasn' http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-1066.html I just wanted to wish everyone a Happy New Year from Las Vegas For a little video clip of the fireworks please click here httpwvhsalumni.comfunvideoMVI2326.AVI WARNING 10 Megs 35 second clip Take care everyoneTESTING http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/Nevada/Las-Vegas/blog-2840.html On the road again... well more like in the air again then on the road followed by the railhellip whatever. This time off to Italy. While there I was to meet up with two people I hadn't seen in many years. Samantha was my first girlfriend in High School here in the States. Over on a oneyear exchange program from Italy our paths crossed in the School Library and before long I was her En http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Emilia-Romagna/Bologna/blog-5009.html So I thought I was going to get some sleephellip 5am rolled around and I was wide awake How was this possible Irsquod been up for a day and a half and Irsquom wide awake after 5 hours sleep Hell if I could do this back home Irsquod be alright. Still dark outside everyone else still asleep and probably will be for hours to come. Ali doesnrsquot have any time differences to http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Italy/Tuscany/Florence/blog-5290.html