So, yes, Monkey has not been very good about keeping the blog updated over these past few weeks. He's been rather busy hopping around from here to there and everywhere on his SAYONARA JAPAN VICTORY TOUR 2005 and partying even more after returning here to Kobe. Highlights from the past few weeks include a triumphant return to Tokyo; a visit to my friend who lives at the base of Mt. Fuji (if you follow the link, scroll down to the entries for May 2nd and 3rd); after a great deal of research and shopping around, securing MY NEW BACKPACK (and yes, I'll admit that the fact that it morphs like something out of Transformers was no small factor in my decision); getting ditched by my bus at a random highway rest area somewhere in Nagano in the middle of the night (mental note: when the driver says be back at the bus by 2:35am, he means it); stopping off for a crazy free jazz festival in Takatsuki; and then, of course, my long-awaited return to the salsa dance floors of Osaka.
See, I've been meaning to sit down and write about these adventures and much much more, but I've been too busy...(also, please see earlier entry The Art of Procrastinating)
Ah well. I'll probably never get around to it so for now, I've posted random new pictures on the blog for your viewing pleasure, including a few pictures from today when I went downtown today to pick up my plane tickets and ended up stumbling upon the Kobe Matsuri complete with samba dancers shaking down the street, yosakoi dancers backflipping everywhere, international food stalls everywhere, free live jazz and families milling about enjoying the beautiful weather. Such a big city, but with such a quaint smalltown feel. I've gotta come back here.
Ah, and yes, that's right. I'm finally blasting off from here to my first destination outside of Japan. That's right, ladies and gentleman, at last...South East Asia.
First stop: MALAYSIA
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