Signing On

Greetings, bloglings. I'm new to this form of communicating, so cut me some slack if I'm amateurish in my initial attempts.

I stopped traveling regularly around Asia a couple of years ago and am still trying to get my feet and my brain on the ground.

Image at right is me posing by the famous red mailbox I made when I was a student at Kyoto University in the late 1970s. Amazingly, in April it was still hanging next to the rice shop in Asukaicho I lived above. I try to check it every few years. Haven't seen any mail for me, but its nice to ponder my immnortality as a former "Kyo Gaijin," as lost foreingers were known in Kyoto at the time. Yes, you CAN go back.