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recently i saw a description by ligaya m on i.g of something or the other as both a shambles and very precise.

wait, you're probably already there. we're about to leave seoul (been here 5 weeks--and i was in india for 7 more before that) for a week in hokkaido before heading back to minnesota.

brooklyn museum + theodora is a nice afternoon-dinner transition. but theodora may be hard to get. is foxface ever coming back?

cnn (in the beginning), tcm, tnt/tbs (for the nba), the cartoon network: much to be thankful for--which is more than i can say for most billionaires.

so sorry to read this. (could admins add "voyager" to the title? i almost didn't read this thread because i didn't know who margaret pilgrim was.)

so sorry to read this.

no photos was good enough for marcella and diana kennedy.

current thinking, option 1 day 1: arrive sapporo midday'ish from seoul, explore city in the afternoon, evening day 2: sapporo day 3: leave most of the luggage in sapporo station and head to yoichi and otaru; overnight in otaru day 4: next morning pick up rental car and drive to and around the shakotan peninsula; return the car in otaru and head to jozankei in the evening; or return the car in jozankei if possible day 5: onsen day in jozankei day 6: jozankei-sapporo-hakodate day 7: hakodate day 8: hakodate (possibly rent car to check out environs) day 9: return to haneda to connect to flight to msp there's a good chance though that we will have to subtract one day depending on the students' exit plans from seoul. if our logistics partner cannot guarantee someone there to deal with travel emergencies then i won't feel comfortable leaving seoul till they're all gone. in that case, will subtract the jozankei day. current thinking, option 2 day 1: arrive sapporo midday'ish from seoul, explore city in the afternoon, evening day 2: sapporo day 3: day trip to yoichi and otaru; return to sapporo in the evening day 4: sapporo to asahikawa; moderate asahidake hike (if weather permits) day 5: rent car in asahikawa, drop off in furano if possible day 6: furano-hakodate day 7: hakodate day 8: hakodate (possibly rent car to check out environs) day 9: return to haneda to connect to flight to msp this might be a harder itinerary to massage if a day needs to be subtracted. also not sure how far up asahidake we could get in mid-june. reports on reddit and hiking sites suggest there's likely to be snow higher up and that it's not safe under those conditions unless fully kitted out. either way, we'd do an onsen hotel in hakodate at the end. the pain in the ass is that because i'll have been in bombay and seoul for 12 weeks prior (and the family in seoul with me for the last 5), we'll have a fair bit of luggage. probably two large suitcases and two carry-ons. in version 2 we'd have to be able to rent a car large enough to hold everything. between that and the asahidake feasibility uncertainty, i'm leaning towards option 1.

not once have i managed to not rip the skin while turning this bird.

increasingly thinking that a full week in hokkaido is what we might do. after some desultory googling, this is the general schema i am considering: start out in sapporo (fly in from seoul) and end up in hakodate (fly out to haneda for connection to msp). 2 days in sapporo? 2 days at the end in hakodate at a hotel with onsen. the question is where should we go in between? car necessary for the middle bits?

i am leading my mumbai-seoul off-campus program again this year, though this time in the spring. i will be in bombay with students for five weeks and then we will move to seoul, where the rest of the family will join us. the program will end in early june. after the students leave we are planning to return to minnesota via japan. it'll be another quick visit: just a week. we're thinking we'll go back to tokyo for a bit and also somewhere new (i.e not kyoto). as tokyo will be wet and hot, we're thinking a few days in hokkaido would be nice. so maybe three days in tokyo plus four in hokkaido or the other way around. any feedback on whether 3-4 days will allow us to go very far afield from sapporo, and if so, suggestions to where, would be very welcome. or should we just go to sapporo/hokkaido for the entire week? i'm thinking we'll fly from seoul to tokyo. stay there for a few days and then fly from tokyo to sapporo (more flight options from tokyo). then return from sapporo to haneda and a few hours later catch our flight back to minnesota.

intriguing. the price is not that much higher. but evelyn, in your experience has it always arrived looking like it does in the product pic? because in the reviews there are descriptions and pictures of very mushy uni.

it's not maine uni per se i have questions about--i've had it before as well. i'm just not sure about the likely quality at places showing me ads on facebook. for example.

i'm being shown a lot of ads for mail order maine uni. very tempted to get some. should i resist?

what more evidence does anyone need that success and ability have no necessary correlation under late capitalism? the mind boggles at the thought that enough people (whether viewers/readers or ny times food dept. higher ups) evidently find her charming enough to compensate.