Day 3 - Akame 48 Waterfalls & Japan Salamander Center

Akame 48 Waterfalls is a good train ride out from Osaka, and very worthwhile. The area boasts extreme natural beauty and as a bonus, includes Japan's Salamander HQ.

A view from a hill on our way up the street to 48 Waterfalls.

Day 2 - Bite, Kick, Butt, Knock Down - Nara, Japan

Our first day trip was out to Nara, where the semi-tame dear wander and eat from your hands.

Deer cookies.

Day 1 - CHEESE WEINERS in Osaka.

The incredible view from our hotel room window.

Japan Once More

After returning from our first trip to Japan in 2010, we knew a subsequent trip would come.  So after two years of anticipation and longing, we finally embarked on our second vacation to Monster Island.

Images of Godzilla flash at me from a set of slot machines in our terminal. Godzilla: King of Monsters.

A few black & whites (actual film) from...

...the past couple of months.

Front room at the Cobb Mansion - Virginia City, NV

Potato yield

So this is what I harvested out of our potato box yesterday. Not as much as I had hoped for. It's weird because the tubers all seemed to grow in clumps around the top of the soil.  I think next year I will need to dig out the soil a good deal into some sort of bin so I can bury my seed potatoes deeper and cover them up more.  This will hopefully increase the yield.  We'll see, still learning...

The Rock...

...and a few other photos from San Fran.

Linda's niece and nephew came up from San Diego for a weekend trip to San Francisco. We met up with them and took a ferry to Alcatraz.  Normally, we don't the tourist traps, but they wanted to see it so we went, which was cool, because sometimes you need to change things up a bit from your usual routines. Alcatraz is actually pretty neat to see.

The move called "The Rock" is one of the worst movies ever made, but the place is cool.