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... office (some post offices can even get them for you) or you can renew yours by mail (some restrictions apply). Go to the website at http://travel.state.gov/passport/passpo rt_1738.html for more information and an online application form. *Book as much as you can ahead of time. Hotel, flight, even tickets to shows and parks can be purchased online before you go. Aisarooms.com and orbitz.com were of great value to me in ...

For dinner we went out to Shibuya for The Lockup, a prison-themed restaurant. We saw Hachiko, a famous dog statue near the Shibuya Station where people often meet. There were people giving out free hugs, one was dressed as a dog. Chris got some huggies and then we went off to find the restaurant. We walked Center Gai, a street with lots of shops and restaurants just to the right from Shibuya Station. I saw some gyaru and center gais, gyaru fashion is dark ...

Here is more information about some destinations that are worth looking into. Reservations are recommended for most restaurants. *Alcatraz A.D.: The phone number is(03)3571-3799 Open 6pm-5am Mon-Sat, 6pm-12am Sunday, $10 cover charge. This restaurant/bar has a very cool prison theme going on (who would have guessed?) . There is also a location in Roppongi under the name Alcatraz B.C. (2F Elsa Building, 3-13-12 Roppongi Minato-ku ...

... course...!). I'd resisted going up the Space Needle in Seattle, but I decided to lose my inhibitions/swallow my pride and pay to get a view over Vancouver. The bonus of this lookout was that you could go up as many times as you wanted on that particular day, although twice was quite enough for me. The view during the day was less than inspiring, but I returned just after 9pm and saw a nice sunset behind the skyscrapers, so I ...

... has an Australian section, wallaroos, a kookaburra all on its lonesome, emus and some birds. The sun was shining and I was surrounded by animals from home had a short bout of homesickness. This was very quickly stopped when we walked into a nearby rainforest section which reminded me just how much I hate humidity. The zoo was nice, for a zoo and since I wasnt being kept in the enclosures but boy was it big and we were so tired at the end of ...

... Sanrio store is located at 1F Korakuen Ad Hoc Building, 3-15-11 Shinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo. The phone number is 03-3354-3640. I couldn't find hours of operation, but I would guess it's open at 10am. It's tough to find a website for it, the one that gave me the most accurate info was www.sanrio.co.jp/english/about_s/shopli st.html *Shinjuku Marz A great place to get some drinks and see some live bands ...

I found a weird Japanese restaurant that I hadn't heard of before, thought I'd share. Most of our time is so booked up we're not going to this place on this trip (not to mention the fact that it's just the two of us). *Nyotaimori: Located (somewhere?) in Tokyo, this restaurant takes nyotaimori (eating sushi off of a nude chick) to a whole new level. You get the naked girl, but instead of eating off of her you eat... her. Made of dough that looks like skin, she's wheeled into ...

... the Czech Republic, in part because I was there last fall with my friend Pete and had a great time, but I was there last fall. I considered South America, but my interest didn't extend much beyond Machu Picchu, and that wouldn't fill three months. Time and again I reconsidered the tour to Shipton's Arch plus something else, but I couldn't figure out what the something else was. Perhaps because of some accidental reading on China, Simon Winchester's The River at the ...

... tuk tuk and take you to all kinds of tailors and travel agencies that give them commissions for bringing you there. People also walk around the train station looking official and tell you your train is sold out and they can sell you a ticket at a travel agency. Right. There are millions more scams so do read all the recent ones on pages like http://www.ricksteves.com/graffiti/graf fiti11.html http://www.scamspotters.com/index ...

M: The mass chaos of our house has been disguised into boxes in our basement. Our friends have made their final stops at our house to babysit our computer, CDs, etc. Our backpacks are full and we've said our goodbyes. The beginning of winter in Seattle and ...