Festival Express Redux: a cross-Canada train trip exploring art, culture, media and business
originally published in “Uncle Weed’s Dossier in Vancouver Observer, Feb 2011 – link broken – retrieved from Wayback Machine Dave […]
Healing Ramble, Personal Musings
Annotations: fainting couch, fixing teeth, riding buses and trains, fading
Of late, it seems this is less of a “creative life archive” then a “documentation of survival”… Recently, obviously dental
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Rolling Elsewhere: Haraku “Hello Kitty” train
Ambient view from the window rolling on the Haraku train, “Hello Kitty” livery… from Shin-Osaka station to Kansai Airport –
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Transport: 4 modes / kei, moto, airstream & train)
Four assorted vehicles, noted with interest:
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(Almost) cross Canada Rock n Roll Train / Flashback and Preview
10 years ago, I was on a train going from Vancouver to Toronto with 11-ish rock ‘n’ roll bands, CBC
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Diary: Shrine, Peace & Bevvies
Shrine visit for peace & health (& wild boar). We wrote a little message on ¥500 wooden prayer tile, each
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Backdrops: Trains and Capsules (for fun times), vol. 1
While working in the “postcard as a service” and modified foreign passport industry, i don’t do many Zoom(tm)/etc calls but
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Haiku: Graves & Trains
Rubbing faded kanji From mossy tilted Edo graves Shinkansen shooshes past
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Elsewhere Scenes, Wander + Wonder
Waiting, not Riding
Waiting for a trainAlone amongst a billionJust to pass by, not to ride No where to goBut to my healing
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Lists + Awards + Profiles
Media: Slow Train Coming (Cascadia Trains) / Vancouver Courier, Oct. 22, 2008
I was interviewed (and used loquacious quotes like “super lame”) for an article about train travel in the Vancouver Courier. I
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Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Japan trains / various incl. Kanazawa and Yokohama
Roll around Japan with ambient train window views from various locations and rolling stock including the Thunderbird Limited Express towards
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Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Sitayama / Unazuki Onsen, Toyama (Japan)
Rolling various local quirky trains from rustic Sitayama station towards the mountains on Toyama and Unazuki Onsen station – not
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Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Toyama, Japan (mostly)
Ambient views from various trains’ windows rolling past rice fields, towns and stations in and around Toyama, Japan (mostly) –
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Transit Chronicles
Note: High-speed Rail from Vancouver > Seattle > Portland & oatmeal
There is much discussion about high speed rail between Vancouver and Portland… This conversation isn’t new, been going on for
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Transport Rolls
Trainspotting: Freight Train Pulling Out of Okayama (Japan) Station
Nothing special, just a freight train pulling out of Okayama Station (with announcements in the background). Just an ambient observation
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Video Dim Sum
Rolling Elsewhere: around Oslo, Norway by boat, train and car
Ambient “space cruise” around generally Oslo area of Norway by boat, trains and car. That’s it. No narration, action, plot,
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