-
San Gabriel Lunar New Year Festival
The dragon at San Gabriel Lunar New Year Festival If there’s anyone that likes free things, it’s got to be me.
As a freebie lover, I attended the San Gabriel Lunar New Year Festival, a free event held at the San Gabriel Mission Playhouse.
Parking wasn’t an issue as I was able to park on the street for free. Their event parking lot was also for free but already full by the time I had gotten there and I actually had gotten there before the start time of the festival. Meh. So, even though I had arrived early, by the time I decided on a parking spot, the festival had already begun.
-
On Top of Miyajima Island
View of Seto Inland Sea from Miyajima Observatory Never in my life have I walked as much as I did while in Japan. Each day I was there, I walked anywhere from 20,000 – 30,000 steps and this was a good thing. A very good thing. (So good that I hope I can attempt to walk that many steps every now and then in the states.)
One of my most intense “walks” in Japan would have to be while on top of Miyajima Island (Hiroshima, Japan). Yes, while on top of Miyajima Island.
My travel companion and I had originally pondered the idea of hiking from the grounds of the island all the way to the top of the island. This of course didn’t happen. Due to time constraints, we decided it was best for us to take a one-way ropeway trip to the “top” of the island. I honestly was feeling a bit chicken about this since I had never been on a ropeway before but sometimes, there’s a first for things and this just happened to be one of those times.
-
What I Don’t Miss About Japan
Vegetarian options at Tokyo Disney Sea Lack of Vegetarian Food 🥕
You can live off of convenience store onigiris but you can’t live off of them for too long. Besides, the likelihood of your onigiri being available at all times is slim. (I managed to survive off of seasoned seaweed onigiris, inari sushi and junk, like fries.) Vegetarianism is a joke in Japan but I knew that before coming to the land of the rising sun and somehow made it work for me despite going hungry here and there during my trip.
-
I am now a .com
I’ve always wanted my very own self-hosted .com blog/site and guess what? I finally did it! Yes!!! 🙂
Since I was using weebly beforehand, it’ll take a bit of time for me to get adjusted. It’ll also take a good amount of time for me to “import” my older posts onto this new site but it’ll happen. (In the meantime, all of my older posts will still of course be available for your viewing pleasure at weebly. In fact, I’m thinking of leaving all of my older posts on weebly even upon completion of “importation” just because. And if “importation” doesn’t work to my liking, well, I’ll just create a page/post linking to all of my older posts. lol
BTW, if you’re wondering why I’m writing import/importation with quotes around it, it’s because I have to manually import my posts onto my new .com blog. Fun, eh? Things would be a lot easier on me had I used a different host, but I loved weebly for what it was. Anyway, that was why I said it’d take some time for the importation process to go through.)
Please be patient with me as I gradually welcome you into this new and exciting blogging journey of mine’s.
<3,
Puang Star -
Toyota USA Automobile Museum
There’s a “secret” in the city of Torrance that no one knows about. Or at least I didn’t know about it anyway until I finally learned of it’s existence.
So, what’s this “secret” that I’m talking about? Well, the city of Torrance is home to the Toyota USA Automobile Museum. Say what? I have a feeling a good amount of Southern Californians did not know this. I also have a good feeling that a decent amount of people living in Torrance didn’t know about it either but I could be wrong.