So back in early June I attempted to make a reservation at the Anshin Oyado capsule hotel in Akihabara. Unfortunately there was nothing available on the days I wanted. I then made a reservation at their Shinjuku hotel. When I checked the c…

First...I had wanted the title of this entry to be "A Day Trip to Victoria Sidney". But, I can't get the strikethrough font to work in the title bar. So I went with what I guess is the next best thing. Originally I intended to meet up with…

It's a nice view and a nice sequence of shots of the business and commercial district I described in my previous A-Train 9 post. We start from a bit past midnight and proceed to daylight then further on to noon.... Not quite yet the part o…

While this is part 2 for the F3 entries on my blog, the subject of this entry is the fourth leg of the Vancouver MINI Club drive. I believe the second leg took the group out to the west coast of Vancouver Island. The third leg had them tra…

So, this story starts and ends at sea...sort of. Okay, it really doesn't. But it does cross the Salish Sea twice. Or should I more properly state that it covers two crossings of the Salish Sea.... Now the start of this story is some ungodl…

On a clear day you can see...a fair distance with your point of view camera hovering at any spot on an A-Train 9 map. But, once more and more buildings appear on the map one gets a feeling, of a sort, as to how big the map is. Distant buil…

Writing about the next installment in the A-Train series which I tackled is a bit of a challenge. For I find the game to be a creature which must have been designed for train nerds alone. That image is impossible to avoid. The promotional …

Dinner tonight was ochazuke...of the quick variety. A package of Nagatani En's Ochazuke no Moto tossed on leftover rice with boiled water poured over top. Though it wasn't really dinner as I had it at 4pm and I was feeling a bit peckish ha…