I was thinking how blah this summer seemed.  

I had a lot of projects that I wanted to do this summer.  I started a walk on Tokaido last year.  It is the road that connected Kyoto to Edo (now Tokyo).  I have two blogs for that trip even though it's still not complete.

www.estelloproject.blogspot.com is the blog of a clay character I created.  The first entries are of Estello's experience on Tokaido.  The more recent entries are just stuff I did.  If you want to see photos of a clay-character rock climbing then you should check out this blog.

www.traveltokaido.blogspot.com is a blog that is my experience of the trip.  It was a lot of work to do two types of photography and to do the entries everyday and get the photos up as well.

The journey was interrupted by a trip to Canada last summer.  

Excuses not to do work:

• really hot and humid (I don't know why I forget each year)
• need to make a new Estello (current one looks diseased instead of cute)
• trying to learn Adobe Illustrator and Dreamweaver (which is done in an air-conditioned environment)
• not a lot of cash for the train there and back
• my walking buddy was out of the country (but has also told me she doesn't want to do it again... she will let me stay at her place, which would cut an hour off my travel time)
• lazy (that was hard work)
• I fell one night coming home and viciously twisted my foot by stepping on a shoe in my doorway when it was dark and couldn't walk for two weeks (it still hurts but I can walk... apparently one's toes can twist 90 degrees to the outside)