Chris Bracken

やっほ〜!

Bonjour, Bon Vespre

Posted to Travel on Wednesday, 11th May, 2005.

Just how far can you travel in a week and a half? It turns out pretty far. Combining planes, trains, ships, and automobiles, Yasuko and I travelled, all told, roughly 22 100 km over the Golden Week holiday. Click to read more …

New York

Posted to Travel on Thursday, 9th September, 2004.

Flew out to New York for final interviews with Tokyo via video-conference. Though I only spent 24 hours in NYC, I was able to run around a little and take a few pictures.

Back to Japan

Posted to Japan, Travel on Friday, 20th August, 2004.

Spent most of August in Japan. I arrived in Osaka the afternoon of the first, spent a few days in Shiga, continued on to Shizuoka, then ten days in Tokyo. Headed to Kyushu on business for four days, then returned back to Tokyo, before finally returning back to Canada.

Ohayou Gozaimasu

Posted to Japan, Travel on Monday, 18th August, 2003.

Back from a three week trek across Japan. Flew into Osaka, threw my bike together, and pedalled my way 800km across the country through Kyoto, Otsu, Imazu, Tsuruga, Fukui, and Kanazawa before a typhoon hit and I had to pack it up and get on the train. Finished up with a stop in Nagano, and a week’s worth of holiday in Tokyo.

Back in Canada

Posted to Travel on Sunday, 26th May, 2002.

Back in Victoria, BC, after a two month return home to Canada by land beginning in Mérida, Yucatán and continuing through Cuba, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, then all the way back up through Guatemala, México, the U.S. and finally Canada.

¡Feliz Navidad!

Posted to México, Travel on Tuesday, 1st January, 2002.

Took a two week trip through southern México for Christmas. Starting in Mérida, southwest into Campeche, Tabasco, Veracruz and then Chiapas. Stopped to visit the Mayan ruins at Palenque, followed by some of the villages around San Cristóbal de las Casas. From there, it was northeast back onto the Yucatán peninsula, to Tulúm, then onwards north again to spend Christmas swimming in the Caribbean on Isla Mujeres in 30 degree weather. After a few days, it was westward again to Chichen Itzá and Valladolid before finally returning home to Mérida.