by Collin | May 26, 2004 | Travel
The first part of our morning was taken up by the trip to Tamano City near Okayama. We were seen off my E-Chan and made several train and bus exchanges to get to our destination. I discovered many wireless hotspots during our trip there but again, the bullet train...
by Collin | May 25, 2004 | Travel
Today’s tour was at Sanyo in one of their cell phone plants. They start with a circuit board and all the tiny components. A machine then adds 95% of the circuits to the board, a precision task that requires the same movement at the same place every time. It does...
by Collin | May 24, 2004 | Travel
Today was our much awaited first free day during the program. After a quick meeting, with a diminishing few of our conspirators from last night we decided to head to the so-called romantic train that goes between Kameoka and Saga Arashiyama that we have seen so many...
by Collin | May 23, 2004 | Cultural
Today our group visited the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum. A few of us took a walk to see where the bomb hit. It turns out, our hotel was only a few hundred yards away from hypercenter, the place where the bomb would have hit the ground if it wasn’t an air...
by Collin | May 23, 2004 | Uncategorized
Sorry for no posts in a while. I’ve got a lot of stuff ready to go up but no usable internet connection. I am alive and doing well (if a little footsore). Keep watching the site for a ton of new updates. Take care!