Well, its 2020 and the novel coronavirus has halted all international travel, so my vacation is now a staycation.

With 10 days to kill, well, let’s just say that I’m out of things to do already.

Here’s day 1. Got drunk

Day 2 apocalypse/zombie/dystopia/future imperfect/space movie marathon. Movies include:

Alien Quadrilogy

Shawn of the Dead

Dawn of the Dead

Zombieland

Blade Runner

Mars Attacks!

Robocop

Total Recall

All the Star Trek moves I own

Terminator 2

Dark City

Cyborg (JCVD rules!)

Land of the Dead

Looper

28 Weeks Later

Minority Report

The Running Man

The Terminator

Soylent Green

Planet of the Apes

Dredd

I believe that I’ll get through all of them.

It may take more than a day

In China anyway.

Tried out a trip to Yokohama. Its part of the greater Tokyo metropolitan area. I’d have to say it’s the lesser part. Tokyo rules forever!!

It was okay, but it didn’t have that big city buzzy feel. The Chinatown is the best I’ve seen, though. Solid restaurants and shops, and the mood felt a lot like Hong Kong.

There’s a lovely seafront park, and good connections to other big cities in the area.

On the way home, I found some type of craft fair in a temple. So neat.

After that I bought a shirt so I’d have something clean to wear home tomorrow, and dinner again with a friend.

I’ve been coming home early every day to watch the televised sumo matches with this Korean guy at my hostel. He’s taught me a lot about sumo.

I’ve really enjoyed staying at this hostel. The coffee in the morning is real coffee, and the beds are more comfortable than Asian beds usually are. I’d stay here again.

I’ll take a walking tour in the morning to fill up a travel day.

See you on the flip side

Took a walking tour and I was the only one who showed up. So I got a private tour, basically. Nice! The lady, Reiko, taught me a lot about the development of buddhism in Japan. You know I love that stuff.

Lunch was forgettable and made my tummy hurt.

I didn’t really have plans until 4, so I picked a direction and started walking.

You can see so much by just looking around here. All of a sudden some sweet old lady comes up and tells you about a thing, and an idea makes sense at last. I’m as in love with Japan as the first time I was here.

I had dinner with a Chinese gal at a restaurant that served dumplings, it’s what you eat for new years, dontcha know. We then watched some crazy show on Chinese TV. Over a billion people were watching it at the same time. It’s like Dick Clark but for many more hours, stranger, and in Mandarin.

My last day is tomorrow and I’m going to try and do something momentous lol. We’ll see if this actually happens.

Good morning to America and happy Year of the Rat!!

I had a nice walk to the neighborhood where today’s museums were. It’s also back where I was at yesterday at the sumo arena.

So walking over from their stables, to work at the arena, were lots of wrestlers. I of course wanted to take a picture but didn’t in the end. After passing by the 15th guy walking to work it wasn’t so exciting. But still, you know, how you feel when you see a celebrity? Anyway.

Had a pleasant day learning about old Tokyo stuff. Learned some more about the shotguns and stuff.

Lunch was a a very popular ramen chain. It was good but overrated

I went back to the hostel to watch the day’s sumo matches. Its televised live with no commercials so that’s cool.

That’s all. Skipped dinner due to a late lunch

Not very exciting today. I’ll try to do something more fun tomorrow