We take a Walking in New York City trip today around my neighborhood of Maspeth in Queens. I show you some of the old signs in the area, local stores and we finish with a great conversation with two auto repair shop owners/workers. The business has been around since the 1950’s and the guys were… Read More Maspeth Walkaround
One of the unexpected memories from my recent trip to Japan was the Christmas Lights of Hiroshima… Read More The Christmas Lights Of Hiroshima
One unexpected surprise during my trip to Japan 日本 has been the wonderful displays of Christmas lights in each city. So far I have taken videos of the Christmas lights of Tokyo 東京, Osaka and Hiroshima. You can see all of the videos from the various cities RIGHT HERE. To be honest I hadn’t expected… Read More The Christmas Lights Of Tokyo
Here is the first of many posts from my 2020/21 trip to Japan. In this first video I go to Senso-Ji on the first morning… Read More Senso-Ji In Tokyo – Video
First of all I wrote about my journey to Tokyo (LINK), which I then followed up with two posts about the Naruko Tenjin Shrine (POST 1) and (POST 2). For the fourth post I skipped ahead… Read More Edo Castle In Tokyo
Even to this day it confuses me, I love the punk band without instruments, BiSH. Why does it confuse me you ask? It is quite simple really, my musical proclivities revolve around 1950’s Rock and Roll and Rockabilly… Read More Watching BiSH In Tokyo
Founded in the year 903, like most of Tokyo the shrine is a post war reconstruction. The bombing of Tokyo during World War 2 leveled 16 square miles of the city and therefore most of what you see in Tokyo today is a reconstruction… Read More The Statues Of Naruko Tenjin Shrine
In November of 2018 I made my first trip to Japan, and as I will be returning to Japan in November of 2019 I thought that I would start to share my photos from the 2018 trip… Read More Naruko Tenjin Shrine – Tokyo
I’m a lover of the world, different cultures, different history, different people, but I will have to be honest with you, Japan stood out no more than any other country did, it was just another country out of 50 I would have liked to have gone to… Read More My Trip To Tokyo Last Year
Our walking trip today in New York City is to East Williamsburg in Brooklyn to look at some unique graffiti. I timed this for the sunset setting over the NYC skyline as I crossed the Grand Ave bridge… Read More Walking In New York City – Brooklyn Graffiti
