Mental (and network) note: Orion Southern Star literally tastes like piss water. I finally finished the last can and will absolutely kill myself if I buy it again… or have to have another house party to get rid of it. Orion (Mugi Shokunin) 3 Stars. No problems here! Buy more....

When I first arrived to Tokyo, I noticed that, come the end of winter, weather forecast screens (in trains, on TV, wherever…) would start adding an extra line under the main sun/cloud/water-drop pictograms. Since the new icons usually depicted lovely little pink flowers or trees blowing in the...

After all these years traveling, I finally completed my first ever round-the-world trip (eastward). Did not encounter any edge-of-the-world cliff anywhere. Oh well, there goes my membership to the Flat Earth Believers Association. For one month, I lived in a house whose mere living room covered abou...