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| BNMac | profile | all galleries >> Vacations & Trips >> Tokyo - December 2018 | tree view | thumbnails | slideshow |
 Leaving Portland... on a TurboProp! |
 Glenn Jackson bridge - I205 |
 Glenn Jackson bridge - I205 |
 Washington State mountains |
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 Rainer, St. Helens |
 Rainer, St. Helens |
 Rainer, St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 St. Helens |
 Mt. Rainer |
 Mt. Rainer |
 Vancouver BC |
 Light play on interior |
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 Vancouver BC |
 Where's Tokyo? |
 I grew up with the old wool blanket with these colors... |
 Chess, anyone? |
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 Vancouver art |
 Vancouver art |
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 Strange clouds |
 On the tarmac waiting for the runway to clear - Incoming! |
 Boeing 787 |
 Departing Vancouver |
 Lunch! |
 Complete with red wine and dessert. |
 Chasing the sun |
 It was like this for hours |
 At the train station in Haneda airport |
 My train was the second on the list |
 First view of Tokyo |
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 Learn the buttons |
 And the toilet - why must everything have a million functions and run on batteries? |
 One fancy Toto! |
 Complementaries |
 Same phones as I saw in 1985! |
 And phone booths! No one using them, however. |
 First Cache - Godzilla destroyed this bridge... |
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 It was the first thing Godzilla destroyed in the first movie. |
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 Incoming... |
 Train! |
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 Balcony |
 Best to get around on foot |
 Shinagawa station |
 Intersection near the train station |
 Odd that I ran into a fellow co-worker from my office in the US... |
 Destroyed first by Godzilla / ゴジラが最初に壊したモノ |
 Typical Taxi |
 You are only 4 feet above sea level... |
 Well dressed boaters |
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 The light play & reflections on the water caught my eye |
 and there's this strange black & white foul too! |
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 Watch yer noggin! |
 You'll look like this if you hit your head |
 If you clear the overhead, you'll be happy! |
 Brown headed duck - blurry, but couldn't get a better shot. |
 Old house amongst skyscraper apartments |
 Such as this |
 Longboat |
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 Large van |
 Yep, it's that time of year here too. |
 Nissan.... foods? Vehicles? |
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 Pink bridge |
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 Muggle cat caught me seeking the geocache |
 The cache |
 Local advertising on GC website |
 Automation demonstration |
 compact horizontally |
 Car Rental parking |
 Bus transport - you will be carried in the mouth of the bus driver |
 Apartment building |
 Snazzy |
 Mario Karts! |
 See the gaps between the buildings? |
 Monorail |
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 Interesting |
 this too! |
 First day's walk |
 Lunch |
 with a good friend & coworker |
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 School |
 Yard |
 Work... |
 Bullet train nose - Shinkansen |
 More construction |
 Cars |
 View from the classroom |
 View from the classroom |
 View from the classroom |
 View from the classroom |
 Elevator |
 View from the classroom |
 View from the classroom |
 View from the classroom |
 Class... |
 Gift to me |
 Dinner |
 Weather |
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 Church |
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 Shrine |
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 7-11 |
 Cache Clue - Frog/Crab/Fence |
 Around town... |
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 ramp for bicycles - but don't ride 'em! |
 Another cache, exposed. |
 Train tracks |
 'Tis the season |
 Train Station |
 The little game |
 Train Station |
 Glued to their devices |
 Scenery |
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 Horizontally Challenged |
 Intersection |
 Godzilla's bridge from the office |
 Shinagawa station |
 Rooftop |
 Van |
 Vehicles |
 Taxi! |
 Scenery |
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 Lunch vendors |
 Dinner at the Family Mart! |
 Dinner |
 Scenery |
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 Older home |
 Vertically enhanced |
 No where to park my 40' motorhome... (Not that I have a 40' footer, mine is 24'!) |
 Breakfast |
 Office |
 Conference Room - check out those chairs! |
 They like it warm! |
 Persistent electronics |
 Evasive? |
 Office building at night |
 Bring your non-grounded US plugs - I had to break off the ground pin... |
 It's a Clock! |
 It's a Thermometer! It's an Alarm! It's a Timer! |
 Elevator |
 Vending Machine |
 Get ahead in IT!!!! ( I think that's what it says ) |
 They took me out to dinner |
 Yum! |
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 Kobe Beef |
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 End of special dinner |
 Saturday Morning Breakfast (with a little sake hangover thrown in for good measure) |
 Hotel prices |
 To the Keikyu Railway to head back to the Airport |
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 Get in the Haneda line! |
 Exiting |
 Haneda Airport - Observation deck |
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 My last sunset in Tokyo |
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 Vendors |
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 Vendors |
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 Vendors |
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 Racetrack! |
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 Boarding Passes |
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 Get 'chr SWAG in any Vending machine! |
 Old city maps |
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 New bridge build in the old style |
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 Boarding Pass vending machine |
 Hello Kitty! |
 Nano |
 More bridge |
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 Vendors |
 Conversing |
 SWAG/momentos |
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 It was worth the price |
 Uh... I don't think so. |
 Carpet patterns |
 Route |
 Nearly to Vancouver |
 Air Brakes |
 At YVR - Vancover |
 Indigenous Art |
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 Indigenous Art |
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 Art |
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 Hello Bunny! |
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