Japan - Tokyo Marathon

This past Sunday was the Tokyo Marathon and the course went right by my apartment so I went out to watch. It was in amazing amount of people going by. I heard that there were 30,000 runners. The race started at 10 in the morning and at 3 in the afternoon there was still a pretty steady stream of people going by my apartment, which was about 3/4 of the through the race course.





Probably the most entertaining part was that there were quite a few people run the marathon in costumes.

This guy was solar powered.

My favorites.

Japan - Back in Tokyo

I made it back to Tokyo without any problems. I flew Singapore Airlines and this was my first time flying in a 747, my past flights to Japan have all been on 777.

California - Moving

While I was back in Los Angeles, I decided to move out of my apartment and put all of my stuff into storage. I was on a month to month lease and had been wanting to move for a while, but hadn't had time to search for a new apartment. So it really didn't make sense for me to keep renting the apartment if I was going to be in Japan for the next couple of months. And this forces me to get off my butt and find a new apartment once I return to Los Angeles.

Packing up and moving my stuff turned out to be a lot bigger job then I thought it would. It was pretty amazing how much stuff I've accumulated. I barely finished before heading back to Tokyo. I actually took the last load of stuff to storage as I was driving to the airport.

USA - Brighton Ski Resort

California - Long Beach Airport

For my trip to Salt Lake City I flew out of the Long Beach airport for the first time. This has to be the dinkiest airport I've ever been to.

California - Back in the US

I'm back in the US for about two weeks to go on a ski trip to Salt Lake City that I do every year with a bunch of friends.