When I was just a wee lad of 12, my uncle took me here to White Rock to see the ocean for my very first time. 🌊 It has been nearly 35 years and I have returned. Fish & chips 🐟🍟 got more expensive, but the sunset’s still free 🌅
[Me about to propose a new office/livingroom/dining room layout for the new condo]
💁♂️: Dear Wife, come into my Mind Palace
👸🏻: [walks away]
💁♂️: Where are you going!?
👸🏻: To the bathroom… aka your Mind Palace 🔥
💁♂️: 💀💀💀
#truelove
Okay, so we were able to successfully sleep on beds last night, the first night in our new condo. I was totally wiped after dealing with hauling, installing, then returning a bum aircon. But got the new one in this morning so we won’t die of heat as we continue unpacking. Next up: Office.
I have traded sunsets of buildings with sunsets of forests and mountains
Taking a short selfie break while hauling all our stuff over the second mountain pass of the day.
Executing a highly coordinated multi-city international move during a heat dome while heavily jet lagged… do not recommend 🙅♂️
Nothing says “Back in Canada” like a late night root beer and poutine
Back 🇨🇦
Current status:
🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✅
Gonna hang here in Taiwan for a bit, then:
🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Current status: 🇯🇵 Osaka ✈️ 🇹🇼 Taipei ✈️ 🇨🇦 Vancouver
Loaded up
For our last night in #Japan we went down to Nanba. Ate dinner at Kani Dōraku HQ and watched the crowds on Ebisu bridge taking photos of Glico Man. Then down Dotombori to a shrine where you pour water on completely mossed up Buddhist statues #Osaka #mosstodon #lichensubscribe
SÖT Roastery has been on my “to go” coffee list for a while ☕️
After a long hard move, time for some rest and relaxation at the onsen ♨️
Last night in Sakuranomiya. The shippers took our luggage to the airport. Tomorrow the junkers come to take away the rest of our stuff. We go to the hotel tomorrow. This was a great neighbourhood, and this apartment gave us a ton of epic sunsets. 😍 #Osaka #sunset
Okay here is a full album of pics from all over southern Osaka. Includes occultists, wishing shrines, pagodas, ripped devas, and cute 3 legged crows!
Couple more holy spots here in the Nanba area: Mitsudera has a hotel built OVERTOP of it. This wooden temple survived the WW2 bombings so they are protecting it. Then of course you have his worship the Glico Man and some excellent takoyaki signage 😉 #Japan #Osaka
Getting in a last temple visit: Horikoshi Jinja ⛩️ (where your 1 wish will be granted) and Shitenno-ji ☸️ which is Japan’s first temple originally constructed in 593 by Emperor Shotoku Taishi #Japan #Osaka #Buddhism
Currently reading: Buddhism by Dalai Lama 📚
Needed some easy, non-fiction reading that I can put on while packing and riding planes and the like over the next week.
Quizzing my daughter about football. The only thing she knows she learned from the Blue Lock anime, and she showing big attitude:
Me: “Explain the Offside Trap”
Her: “That’s the little cage at the side of the field, right?”
Me: 💀 💀 💀
#football #footie