• Tonya-2... The Series •
Home IS
Everywhere
You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place.
– Miriam Adeney
Shopping and a Foot Massage
Saturday – July 10, 3pm After getting waterlogged at Mutianyu, I welcomed some ‘inside activity’… Jason was perfectly willing to deviate from the tour and so we skipped the Cloisonné Factory and Tea Ceremony (which I had done before) and
Early Sunday Morning
Sunday – July 11, 8amNo makeup. No hairbrush. No problem. I’m ready this morning after a good night’s sleep… It’s still raining here, and 70 degrees. Good Lord, I’m going to freeze. I have plans to go to Tiananmen Square
Forbidden City
Sunday – July 11, noon The weather was much better today than yesterday… it was still very overcast (so not great for photography), but stayed dry through my re-walk of the Forbidden City. I’ve been here before and you can
Shopping and the Counterfeit Handbag Mafia
Sunday – July 11, noonI had a different tour guide today (live and learn – she was a nice lady, but her English was very strained… and frankly, I would have had a better time shopping with Jason from the
Things are beginning to look up…
Sunday – July 11, evening I got back to the airport early and collected my luggage that had arrived from LAX early this morning. It is just SUCH a relief when they confirm it has arrived. And before anyone lectures
‘Eat Your Fear’
Tuesday – July 13, 10pmI went out with my Dalian team tonight for dinner. The team wanted Japanese for dinner (great…. I’m heading into Japan and need a head-start on the shashimi!) and there must have been 40 dishes served
Shinkansen first… then Gompachi
Wednesday – July 14, 10pm Landed safely in Tokyo. Melvin and I rode the Shinkansen (bullet train) from Narita to Tokyo Station. Much fun! Such luxury… in the Green Car. We then met up with one of my colleagues from
Terrific Toilets
Thursday – July 15, 5pm I know this is a delicate subject…. but WOW! They think of everything in Tokyo. Everything!! I heard birds chirping this morning as I exited my hotel room… they pipe the sounds of chirping birds
Back to Tsukiji!
Saturday – July 17, 4am Yep – I went back. Back to Tsukiji Fish Market, aka the Central Tokyo Wholesale Fish Market… the largest in the world. This is where they have the famous Tuna Auctions and barter over a