Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
November 24-30, 2005

The spring of 2005 was a difficult time for my family, due to the death of my father after a fourteen year battle with ALS. In an effort to regroup, my mother decided that the family needed to take vacation together. In particular, she wanted to take a tour of Osaka and Kyoto.

Despite this being touted as a family trip, Rock and Alice (my brother and sister-in-law) couldn't join us from DC, which was particularly disappointing because Alice actually speaks Japanese. Thus, the trip consisted of myself, my mother, and my younger brother, Rex.

This journal of my trip has been divided by day. A few photos are pictured with the text, though the majority of them are hyperlinked to pop up from a new window. Due to time constraints (and laziness, I'll admit), some of the photos are very large and have not been color corrected--for those problems, I apologize. However, the pictures are still pretty, and I hope you will enjoy looking through them.


Thursday and Friday, November 24 and 25
Saturday, November 26
Sunday, November 27
Monday, November 28
Tuesday and Wednesday, November 29 and 30

Comments about these photos can be posted in my livejournal or e-mailed.