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Hope you had as much fun as I did looking back at my Japan trip from last year all this week on the blog.  It was a great vacation.  If you have any interest at all, save up and wait for the economy to pick up and get over there.  Trust me you will like it.

Kyoto is much smaller than Tokyo coming in around 1.5 million residents. It is in central Japan and has a lot of older tourist sites. This video was taped at the Kiyomizu-dera or Kiyomizudera which is a very famous Buddhist temple.

And yes, that is the mysterious wife I mention on this blog. I coaxed her to come out of hiding and onto YouTube. She did a great job! There was no way I was pronouncing that.

See my Japan section.
My photos from Japan.

We’re looking back  at the Thanksgiving 2007 mikemcguff.com coverage of my trip last year. It was strange being in a foreign country on Thanksgiving Day. As you can imagine, we did not run into many Americans over there. Most of the obvious tourists were from Europe. Don’t worry, I didn’t eat sushi for Thanksgiving dinner. The few Americans  there were with us at the hotel buffet which served turkey, stuffing and everything else you come to expect.

I recorded this video on the famous Bullet Train from Tokyo to Kyoto. The train goes so fast that the camera picked up things we couldn’t see with the naked eye. You will see video of the Japan countryside.

See my Japan section.
My photos from Japan.

Don’t accuse the mikemcguff.com blog of not getting prepared for Thanksgiving! James has on his first Thanksgiving outfit. Happy T-Day everyone!

James is looking at me wondering what he has gotten himself into! I have this nut blogger for a father who puts me up here for holidays like Thanksgiving and Chinese Democracy release day!

People have been writing in asking to see photos of James. Here you go, the one that is on my desk at work now.

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Day 3 of the mikemcguff.com rewind to when I was in Tokyo, Japan last year at this time. Here is the trip to the Sony store were I first saw the Rolly. It’s a dancing mp3 player! You won’t believe this!

See more funny videos and TBT Videos at Today’s Big Thing.

This video is hard for me to watch on the mikemcguff.com rewind of my 2007 Thanksgiving Japan trip. We were up way too early for my tastes! But it did give us a chance to see that the clubs really close around 6am in Tokyo!

I am not an early riser, so I thought I was dreaming as we were up at 6am to do the tourist thing in Japan and there were young people all about on the subway. These weren’t the people going to work. That was evident by the dude who ralphed all over the floor behind us.

Some Tokyo clubs and bars stay open until 5 or 7am! These people know how to party. In one bar we went to about 3am, there was a guy passed out at a table. I wanted to join him after sake, Yebisu Beer and whatever else we all sampled that night. What can I say? In the US I don’t drink that much, I just blog. You probably already knew that though.

Share your Japan memories or stories in the comments!

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Cynthia e-mailed me this morning saying:
OK- I’ve suddenly been bitten by the travel bug. I can be talked out of it though. Go ahead and tell me why it wouldn’t be a great idea to fly to Brussels for Christmas!!!!!!
I couldn’t think of a single reason…
3 hours later we have our flight and hotel booked.
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As the Thanksgiving holidays approach and I thought about what to post here on my newly re-vamped blog, I decided to write a post on why I am thankful that will also fill you in on what’s been going on the past few months.
I am thankful for…
My job: I have seen several friends laid off […]