The Walken Dead

In this blog I continue to document how my son continues to document his trip to Japan. Let's have a looksie...

Here he is enjoying the Japanese public transit system.

Here he is blending in with the locals.

Here he is looking at the wrong monument.

Here he is texting when he could be having a birthday drink at a bar.

Here he is texting when he could be enjoying a beautiful view.

Here he is holding a big bug.

Here he is singing when he could have been giving a pep talk.

Here he is enjoying his seventeenth birthday with his dad when he could have been doing something or other.

Here he is looking at an island likely inhabited by zombies.

Bonus picture: boat captain who was hell-bent on steering us to our death

Luckily we survived, despite the high waves, questionable weather, circling sharks, and probable zombies.

Wherein My Son Enjoys a Japan

"If you're going to start late, you might as well start big" is a saying that I just now made up but it comes to mind whenever I think about Simon's travels. Simon had never left the country before July 1st. Now he's a world traveler. Let me show you in a brief photo essay how that unfeld.

Here he is saying farewell to his old life which happens to be sitting directly in front of him on the airplane.

You can see how serious he is about this.

Here he is so incredibly excited to be in Japan, a place he's wanted to visit most of his life.

Solemnly reflecting on such a great opportunity.

When we finally got to eat he was like "omg I am liek totally going to take a pic of this food right here on this tray" and then he totally did take a picture of it.

Right now we haven't gotten much further than that so here are some Japanese cats.

Bonus picture: who wants to play a quick game of UFO Colon?