• A Different World

    A Different World

    Ladies and gentlemen, I’m pleased to announce that this post officially marks the first time in almost two years that I’m actually writing about the country I’m in! Welcome, at long last, to Cambodia 😀

  • An Average Night Out

    An Average Night Out

    The following is not actually a single narrative of one continuous evening, but a composite of many. It’s written as a representative summary of my average night out in Kyoto. Nothing is exaggerated. It’s Saturday […]

  • Into the Lion's Den

    Into the Lion’s Den

    How many of you have heard the name “Transdniestr?” Not too many, I’m guessing. Transdniester – also known as Pridnestrovie in Russian – is a small rogue nation occupying a narrow strip of land along […]

  • Dare to Dream

    Dare to Dream

    Somewhere around six months ago, I was sitting in my apartment talking on the phone with my mom. From just outside my window I could hear Buddhist monks chanting at Ninnaji, an enormous wooden temple […]

  • Mostar

    Mostar

    Although I’d suspect that most people have never even heard the name “Mostar,” a relatively small town in the Herzegovina region of Bosnia-Herzegovina, it turned to be one of the most intriguing places I’ve ever […]

  • Bushido and Jump-Rope (VIDEO)

    Bushido and Jump-Rope (VIDEO)

    “They are an intriguing people. From the moment they wake, they devote themselves to the perfection of whatever they pursue. I have never seen such discipline.” -The Last Samurai. Seeing that fantastic archery demonstration the […]

I was last seen 5 months ago in Los Angeles, .

No More Tilt

 Japan, Public  19 Responses »
Aug 112008
 

GodDAMNit!

On the way home from Suma this Saturday I stopped by in Shinsaibashi (Osaka) for a WhyNot Party. After it concluded, I had an hour to kill before a friend would finish work and come to meet up at midnight. So I sat outside and recharged with a brief nap.

When I woke up, my backpack – which I’d placed about half an inch from me – was gone. With it went my extremely customized $500 AT&T Tilt (cellphone), 6gb microsd card, underwater camera case, my favorite tanktop, 3 round-trip tickets to Tokushima, and a really awesome beer mug I brought back from Tel Aviv. The backpack itself was the removable outer portion of my backpacking backpack, which by itself cannot be replaced. Continue reading »

Rainichi

 Japan, Public  6 Responses »
Aug 102008
 

Rainichi. It means “Coming to Japan.”

That is what I have just done.

I’m here, once again, in the fabulous city of Kyoto.

I had quite a list of things I wanted to accomplish during the two months I spent in LA between the conclusion of my Israel/Egypt/Jordan trip and the commencement of this next chapter in Asia. Continue reading »

Master of Slices

 Public, USA  2 Responses »
Jul 312008
 
Dean and I surveying a burial chamber in Miyazaki, Japan (2006) Dean and I surveying a burial chamber in Miyazaki, Japan (2006)

I’m back in LA…for five more days. Man, it’s been busy.

These last two weeks of GPR surveys with Dean have been an interesting experience – mainly because they were very different from the other surveys we’ve conducted together in Japan.

The tribal cemetery in Twentynine Palms. The tribal cemetery in Twentynine Palms.

The first contract, in Twentynine Palms, CA, came up totally out of the blue. The ancestors of the Chemehuevi Indian tribe, as part of a recent effort to catalog and preserve their tribal culture, located Dean online and hired him to help find the specific locations of any unmarked graves in a known tribal cemetery.
Continue reading »

A Map for Saturday

 Public, USA  10 Responses »
Jul 132008
 

I finally got my copy of A Map For Saturday, a much anticipated documentary that I mentioned a couple months back in this post.

Here’s the description on the back cover:

On a trip around the world, every day feels like Saturday. A MAP FOR SATURDAY reveals a world of long-term, solo travel through the stories of trekkers in 20 countries on four continents. The documentary finds backpackers helping neglected Thai tsunami victims. It explains why Nepal’s guesthouses are empty and Brazil’s stoplights are ignored. But, at its core, SATURDAY tracks the emotional arc of extreme long-term travelers; teenagers and senior citizens who wondered, “what would it be like to travel the world?” Then did it. Continue reading »

1 2 … 82 83 84 85 86 … 143 144
Contact | Terms & Privacy
©2004-2026 Justin Klein 		whos online
Feedburner 		HTML5 Valid
05-01-2026 08:51:16UTC 0.30s 65q 29.15MB