Prisoner of Hopes

Category: travels

  • Aquarium: Travel Goals Canada

    Aquarium: Travel Goals Canada

    Stanley Park is quite large. We are dedicating the whole day to the experience. There is plenty to keep us busy. In fact, we are weighing our options. The current diversion is the Vancouver Aquarium. We walk from the bus stop at the edge of the park around Brockton Park and its Totem Park to…

  • False Creek Ferry

    False Creek Ferry

    Today we take bus 10 to Granville Island. The bus lets us off at an overpass and we try to follow Google Maps down under the elevated main thoroughfare and onto an underpass walkway that leads to the market and the docks. It isn’t as straightforward as we think it should be, but we manage.…

  • Timeless Temples: Travel Goals Japan

    Timeless Temples: Travel Goals Japan

    In Kyoto, it seems there are temples at every turn. We are actually looking for something to eat when we stumble on the Higashi Hongan Ji Temple. We think we are walking toward food trucks, but the tents and trucks are part of a tea festival and we don’t have tickets. It is a bust.…

  • Totem Garden: Travel Goals Canada

    Totem Garden: Travel Goals Canada

    Today, I am standing in Stanley Park, Vancouver. I have a virtual meeting and here on Brockton Point I have great cell service. I find a secluded area and take the call. It is just around the corner from the Totem Park. While I talk, I have a front row seat to the parade of…

  • Arrival: Travel Goals Canada

    Arrival: Travel Goals Canada

    Most days I love my rural home. Those days I am up before the sun, happily curled up in my favorite chair drinking coffee and either reading or writing. Today we have an early (5:30 am flight) and we live an hour from the airport. If you do the math; factoring travel time, airport parking…

  • Walking Tokyo Or Why I Think Your Feet Are Key To A Rich Travel Experience: Travel Goals Japan

    Walking Tokyo Or Why I Think Your Feet Are Key To A Rich Travel Experience: Travel Goals Japan

    There is never any doubt in my mind that the best way to get to point b from point a is to walk. This rule only applies when we travel. At home, I am more than happy to waste gas to take me three quarters of a mile to buy a luke warm latte made…

  • Tourist Mecca or Sacred Mountain?: Travel Goals Japan

    Tourist Mecca or Sacred Mountain?: Travel Goals Japan

    Today’s destination is Fushimi Inari Taisha, a temple that has over 3 miles of trail up Mount Inari. The mountain temple path is lined with over 10,000 Tori Gates. My son has picked the location because of internet reviews and photos of the Tori gates. It does look impressive and a little intimidating. However, if…

  • Bullet Train: Travel Goals Japan

    Bullet Train: Travel Goals Japan

    I am riding a bullet train today. There is one leaving the station every few minutes. I can arrive and walk to the platform with absolutely no fuss. I am still in shock that for a small fee I will be in a city across the country in just a few hours. With a Japan…

  • Wind Power: Rural Road Trips Texas

    Wind Power: Rural Road Trips Texas

    Today we find ourselves at a windmill museum. Why? You ask. That is a good question that we are still asking ourselves. The short answer is that we are on a road trip and find ourselves in the middle of Texas with time to kill. Our RV park has no amenities and the ambience at…

  • That’ll Be The Day: Rural Road Trips Texas

    That’ll Be The Day: Rural Road Trips Texas

    We are in Lubbock taking a rest for a few days on an extended rv trip. Today we ran across the Buddy Holly Center. I didn’t know Buddy Holly was from Lubbock. But I do now. I also didn’t know that he looked eerily like my son in law. But now that I have seen…