Anyone know if reverse captcha is still a thing? (A hidden field that should always be empty, but the bots fill it, thus detecting the bots.) I’m assuming the bots are too smart for it now.
A sadly limited list of theaters showing Oppenheimer in 70mm IMAX.
The downside of leaving for 17 days is it seems like some stuff just stops working without use. My truck is now leaking gas, and a TV seems to have a dying screen. Why?!
We’re home. And we’re ready to go back.
🇯🇵❤️🇰🇷
Airport transport arrives in an hour. One last sit in Seoul. Gwanghwamun Square.
Last full day of the trip. See my prior post for the great start to the day - seeing where our nephews spent the first months of their lives. 😭 Then K-pop dance classes and visiting various K-pop touch points. Eating Ttoekbokki and bulgogi. Finishing the night at Seoul Record Pub. ❤️
Two of our nephews were adopted from South Korea and today we were able to visit the orphanage where they spent the first 6 months of their lives. They were escorted to the USA at the time of their adoption. This was the first time anyone in our family, aside from the boys, had been there. 🥹😢😭
Quite a day in Seoul. Walked through the Gyeongbokgung Palace grounds and Bukchon Village in hanbok; ate Cho Yonsoon’s famous handmade Korean Noodles in Gwangjang Market; struck poses at Dongdaemun Design Plaza and KTO K-Pop center; and finished the night with BB.Q Chicken and speakeasy cocktails.
Empties.
Travel day to our last stop of the trip. We got some Seoul time in tonight.
Fuji-san eventually cooperated as we canoed around Uno Island with our excellent guide.
While walking Kawaguchiko.
Lights of the nighttime hikers on Mt. Fuji. (3-second exposure.)
Cafe in Kawaguchiko.
The sting of leaving Togari is alleviated a bit after a travel day to a room with this view.
Wasabi chips are kind of amazing.
Some tears as we leave Rich, Meike, and Togari. 🥲
One more from last night of me and Takuya nailing Aerosmith.
Ended the night singing karaoke with the locals. Or as the kids said, “making a core memory.”
Visiting a minka (traditional Japanese farmhouse) under renovation to become a restaurant.
House swallow.
Today…was unbelievable. We climbed a mountain with the neighborhood, who open the shrine up once per year for a festival. We helped clean. The monks and neighbors refreshed the Shimenawa (ropes), including around a very miraculous tree. Then we celebrated, carrying a lantern in the procession.
Iiyama rice fields.
It’s bedtime in the storehouse.
