December 2007
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Park in the CBD and homeless homes, Tokyo
“Designated park for people who cannot go home” AKA homeless people. I think Japanese homeless are the most deicpine homeless people in the world, they take pride in their “homes” and have dignity…also, they seldom take crack. Epic.
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Lunch time excerise, Tokyo CBD
Lunch time: Guys in business shirts jumping, runnning around, climbing like monkeys! its amazing…surely going back to the office in sweat.
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Akihabara, the Electronic Town
All things electronic. Available here before anywhere else probably too. Lets buy a DVD about Insects Fighting Insects (the New Zealand Weta NZ weta made it to the semis)
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Vending machine life
you can buy pretty musch anything from vending machines. if you had a pocket full of change you could survive easy. the service is superb 1litre beer? respect order your food via vending machine!
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Game on! Asakusa
japan love their baseball Its harder than it looks Gambling is illegal so they have these wack games that are a work-round the law!! Pachinko is everywhere!
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Asakusa, Tokyo
Same jersey as the wellington juggler With hung out with this dog for about 15min. In this time 4 different ladies came up to him and gave him time. player.
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Asakusa, Tokyo
We witness this man catch a massive fish in a inner city river. ….from this river: Whenever we were lost we tried to look for that golden worm thingie. homeless ppl
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Asakusa, Tokyo
Asakusa was our neighbourhood for our week in japan. Best way to see the hood is by bike, you can go hire them for 200yen a day thats a pack of instant noodles. All the bikes are E.T style. This place is an blend of buddhist temple and shinto shrines tour guides. japanese only.
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Laters LA
Flying outta US from LA. goodbye US…some last shots in La wash everything “expensive” petrol! Its this easy… again… ohh geez leights booked a hotel in the city of gun claps…take that bad it wasnt thaaat bad last min shopping
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Laters Vegas
Vegas is spectacular, no doubt. You have to fly in and look out the window to appreciate how people could manipulate a desert like they have here in Nevada. My first thought of Vegas was glamour and heat. Because we were there in November it was damn cold…once the sun goes down its hoodie time. Some days the sun was blazing but the temp had to be around 10c. Glamour- yes! Themed hotels are...
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IN-N-OUT burgers
I know its fat-man mentality to write a blog post about a burger joint. who cares. Burgers to america is rice to asia. I made it a goal to go to all the burger joints while travelling the US and YES we pretty much hit them all. At first It was awesome, fat burgers…americans diffinitely have their fring down too - the fries always got that first batch taste…size large NZ is size small...
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Las Vegas, City of sleeze
My Mexican cabron hands these out every night on the Vegas strip
its part of the skyline
makes up most of the litter
some people bin them though
every intersection…
every crack…
help yourself
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The Venetian, Vegas
The Venetian on the strip is amazing.
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More vegas
leights won $40 off a $1
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Studio 54 @ MGM, Vegas
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Vegas by night
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American "stars"
one of many Elvis’s i meet on the trip
“Christina Aguilera” & “Britney spears”
Tim mcgraw
Micheal Jackson…
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Vegas Stratosphere
Las Vegas is damn expensive from thursday to saturday. If you wanna save $$, diffinetly come from sunday to thursday! we scored rooms at the Stratosphere Hotel for $40 a room. thats the same price per person for a hostel.
Its been a long time since a proper bed… rage it.
downstairs was good…
upstairs was better…
The strip from a distance
the...
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woah vegas
I reckon nevada has the best views from the air
Man has conquered desert
and this is only the airport….
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Mission st Night
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Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving Berkley
Getting invited over for dinner while travelling is a godsend…Green Bean Casserole, Stuffing, roast with gravy and Cranberry Sauce …its over!
The chefs steph and jing
about to get his fei-chye on
Turkey Chicken
The IQ in this room was off the richter.
thanks guys, you beat Thanksgiving vegas……….
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San Francisco Pier 39 and water front
Alcatraz Island
Large cleanup after San Francisco oil spill
GoCar GPS-Guided Tours
original chocolate face
hands down the stinkiest spot in SF
Seafood chowder in sourdough
a pigeon flys on our table aka health hazard
market on the waterfront
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backpackers
no smoking inside, this italian is bad ass
10:30am
Yuk.
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Hooters, San Francisco
Hooters, Fisherman’s Wharf - San Francisco “The chicken wings are great and the service is excellent” 5 stars. 9-11 hot wings - Top 5 hottest things i’ve even ate. it didnt even taste like chicken anymore. mandatory photo shoot mandatory t shirt purchase
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San Francisco - Colour @ Misson and Castro
Mission district is where we stayed for a week while in San fran. It awesome.yup.
Man: “Hey, you want something? “
Castro, the gayest neighbour in the world
“Freddy and D’s on bikes”
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Muir Woods
Dylan dropped us off at Muir Woods. i was thinking why the hell are we going here…it was only piece of nature action we got all trip. No Blair Witch, just a lot of big trees.
inside a log
inside a cave
Dylan knows SF like the back of his hand
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San Francisco China town
San Francisco Chinatown - The largest chinatown outside of Asia
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San Francisco Bridges
Golden Gate Bridge
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
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San Francisco Trams
At Lombard Street
gets pretty damn close
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San Francisco - around town
Transamerica Pyramid
people from all walks of life come play chess
The temp drops when your in the fog, its really annoying
a SCHOOL
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San Francisco
I grew up watching San Francisco on Full House. The most obvuis thing about this city is that its Hilly and Foggy! For me it reminds me of Wellington but its way more Diverse and gay. There are heaps of bums here too, probably more obvious than any other big city in the US. The Bay area is something like 7x7 miles so its pretty compact. Public transport is great, the BART is by far the nicest...
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Brooklyn & Brooklyn bridge, NY
DUMBO - New York
Down Under the Manhattan Bridge Overpass.The new hot spot for young NY yuppies.
Public school and fallout shelter
This is the printing and distribution centre for all Jehovah’s Witnesses watch tower books to the world. ahhh
Brooklyn Bridge
Manhattan Bridge
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NBA, New Jersey vs Boston, Izod Centre, New Jersey...
NBA,New Jersey Nets vs Boston Celtics, Izod Center, New Jersey. It amazing to see kidd run the game and pass like a god, Vince Carter and Richard Jefferson dunks. but the celtics big three: Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen proved too much. I reckon Boston could go all the way this season.
No Jason Kidd Kiss before each free throw after his divorce..
Vince carter injuried,...
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Sylvia's - Queen of Soul Food, Harlem
Sylvia’s - Queen of Soul Food
328 Lenox Avenue New York, NY 10027 (212) 996-0660
Chicken and Waffles!
like momma makes it
speical sause
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Rucker Park, Harlem, NY
Rucker Park
unfortunately the street ball league was not in season, nor was it warm enough on a weekday morning to see streeballers out in this prolific court. legends have played here and often nba players pay their respects here when their in town. we could only imagine.
Baron Davis - Streetball (Rucker Park)
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Harlem, New York
Harlem long known as a major African American cultural and business center. in the 20th century it was heavly associated with black culture, but also crime and poverty, it is now experiencing a social and economic renaissance through gentrification in the late 1990s. This was driven by changing federal and city policies, including fierce crime-fighting and a concerted effort to develop the retail...
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NBA store, NY
THE NBA STORE kicks ass. we spent nearly 3hrs there by accident. all team merchandise, games, memorbila…. Yao ming is bigger than me
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NBA, Knicks, Madison Square Garden, NY
NBA,KNICKS,Madison Square Garden. Jason Williams made the go-ahead jumper with 19 seconds left giving the Heat’s first victory of the season by beating the New York Knicks 75-72. Kicks are a awesome team to watch, too bad they really suck this season so far…heat with d-wade is quite garbage too..shaq my be old by still is the most dominate BIG. seeing Eddy curry aka “baby...
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Statue of Liberty
Statue of Liberty is like, wow. but i did’t know that you needed to book 48hr in advance to climb up her arm. shes got a nice back huge erection he looked like my father not a nice day :-S stupid/awesome
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Ellis Island, NY
Ellis island immigration museum - if only i had ancestors that migrated thorugh NY..then i could look them up in the registry DB like in that movie Hitch . waiting for my immigration mental and health tests
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Ground Zero, NY
Ground Zero …damn its silencing here. its a sad feeling. its hard to beleive what happened becuase everything is all cleaned up, you can really appreciate how the city has recovered from 9-11…the one building however is being demolished floor by floor since its too hard to demolish the whole thing at once. under construction taking a peek @ construction this man is a great...
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Veterans Day, NY
Veterans Day is an American holiday honoring military veterans. A public holiday. most americans love their vet’s, others are just obilvious.
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Empire State Building
Empire State Building 20bucks to get up. damn. had too. worth it. didnt see anyone get on one knee and propose though like in the movies…
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Grand Central Terminal
Grand Central Terminal
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York only cause its warm in here…but it turned out to be really interesting…no photos allowed inside.. whoops