An Urban Boychick Takes on the Outdoors

OK, not everyone wants to read the full  five part series about my trip to Japan and Thailand. With attention spans ruined by social media, they deny themselves the pleasures of reading thousands upon thousands of words of my masterful writing. Anyway, for such people (frankly, I'd be among them if it was someone else's trip), here's a summary of what was an amazing trip mostly in pictures, with only a little to read. The genesis of this trip was that I wanted to visit my old friend Peter, who has chosen to spend his retirement years in Thailand. Japan has long been a bucket list destination for me, and so I deided to add some time in Japan along the way. Tokyo Shibuya at night My trip started in Tokyo. I stayed in the Shibuya neighborhood, which is very glitzy, futuristic, high energy, youthful, and fun. I've come to realize that travel has become unduly influenced by, well, influencers. People want to do activities either that they've seen on Instagram or TikTok,...