This is a project that I started many years ago, and I have slowly updating it, as I have had time.
I wrote these travel journal entries back when I was 30 years old and single, and now as I look back, 18+ years later, it is very amusing to review the old me.
Anyhow, contained with the Notes, are images that I have also been slowly updating as I scan in the original 35mm slides into a digital form. Some of them have already made it to my Flickr account!
Itinerary
- November 1, 1994 – Start of the Adventure
- November 2, 1994 – Arrive Tokyo/Narita
- November 3, 1994 – Culture Day – Japan
- November 4, 1994 – Kamakura, Japan
- November 5, 1994 – Tour of Tokyo
- November 6, 1994 – Last Day in Japan
- November 7, 1994 – First Day in Hong Kong
- November 8, 1994 – Train into China
- November 9, 1994 – Launching of Zippo in China
- November 10, 1994 – Next stop… Beijing
- November 11, 1994 – Tour of Beijing
- November 12, 1994 – Tiananmen Square and The Great Wall
- November 13, 1994 – From Beijing to Shanghai
- November 14, 1994 – Shanghai onto Hong Kong
- November 15, 1994 – Heading Home
Tokyo Tower 01
Dwarf Pine trees
Guard Gate 02
Tokyo Tower 01
Samurai Warrior Monument
Kamakura Train Station
Temple Roof Detail
Temple Front
Sake barrels
Little girl elaborately dressed
Statue Detail 01
Apex Detail 01
Children Statues 01
Apex Detail 02
Children Statues (Detail)
Bronze Buddha
Incense Burner (Detail)
Bronze Buddha (Head Detail)
White Dragon protecting a coin pond
Open Air Market
Watering Stand w/Cat
Bronze Dragon Shrine
Which way to go?
Dragon at the end of the tunnel
Looking out from a tunnel
Walk way into Cliffs 01
Map (Detail)
Map (General)
Prayer Wall
Scale Model 01
Scale Model 02 – Detail
Scaled Model 03 (Boat)
The view from on top of Mt. Victoria
Close-Up on the Bank of China
The view from on top of Mt. Victoria 02
Looking back at Hong Kong
Side of a Museum
Hydro Foil
Star Ferry
Museum Sign
The Museum from Hong Kong
Construction 01
Construction 02
Sitting in the Emperor’s chair
Bank of China
Looking over Hong Kong
Between Buildings
Interesting Building 02
Roof Corner Detail – Forbidden City
Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Gate of Supreme Harmony
Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Bronze Lion
Gate of Supreme Harmony (Taihemen) – Marple Terraces/East
Gold Guard Lion
Dragon-Cloud Ramp Stone Carving
Iron Incense Urn
Carved Wood Dragon
Main Enterence to the Forbidden City
Gold Guard Dog
Guard Tower – Forbidden City
Museum of Chinese Revolution & History
Working People’s Cultural Palace
Map of the Tombs
Great Hall of the People
Walking up to the tombs 2
Walking up to the tombs
13th Ming Emperor’s Tombs – Looking Out 2
13th Ming Emperor’s Tombs – Looking Out
13th Ming Emperor’s Tombs – Looking Out 3
The Great Wall – Walking View
The Great Wall – Tower
The Great Wall – Stairs
The Great Wall – Looking out
The Great Wall – Looking Out 2
The Great Wall – Walking Surface
The Great Wall – Looking Out 3
The Great Wall – Looking Out 4
Monument to the People’s Heros
Tiananmen Square – Overview
Guard Gate 01
Version History
- [1999-Mar-05] – Original HTML and Images Linked
- [2012-Sept-18] – Converted to WordPress
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