Accepting change is hard. Most people don’t have a choice, when the world changes – they eventually have to change with it. My mother on Facebook is a great example of this; it was the only way she was going to keep up with her grandchildren’s lives. I have to admit though – I’m a [...]

Photo: Since I’m in the process of selling off all of my posessions, my friend Linda sent this photo to me as a joke! I used to say that my cat, Palucci, had love for only one person; that person used to be me. However, when I decided to do my long term travel last [...]

Photo: American Grocery Store America – my home country…my passport, my culture. I’ve been gone from it for 15 months and am now re-entering it with a fresh pair of eyes. I have to first start out, I do love my country. It is my heritage. I love our freedom, I love our rights, I [...]

I must admit, I went to school for Accounting, why – I have no idea. “Hello my name is Sherry and I’m a bean counter.” Yeah – it never quite fit me, nor my personality, which is probably how I ended up in Information Technology. However, there was something about numbers that I liked which [...]

 Reality – what is the definition? I read once that “Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.” That will give you a headache if you think about it too hard. However what really hurts, is when someone says to me “You must go back to reality sometime.” I hear [...]

Photo: Sunset on Ocean Beach, San Francisco I suppose many of you who are following this journey (are you really still with me after 15 months?) are under the assumption that once I get back to the US, I will end this blog monstrosity. Ahhhh – but if you’ve really been paying attention – then [...]

View Tokyo Photography View Tsukiji Fish Market Photography View Tokyo snapshots Since I only had 4 days in Tokyo, and little money left for traveling, I had a challenge – how do you stay in Tokyo on a budget. After months of living a simple life – I think I was up to the challenge. The first big [...]

For all Tsukiji Market Photography – click here! The alarm went off at 2:45AM – I got up disoriented and thought…why do I do this to myself? Yet as my eyes adjusted to the overhead light, and I got up off of my floor mat, I reminded myself that this was the whole purpose of [...]