Kerry Rupp, Founder, came to visit us at StartPad today (possible future tenant).

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Really nice Lebanese restaurant in Portland - we found accidentally as we were looking for a place to eat near Powell's book store.

Recommendation from Roy. Rather than mess with the buggy ICS and AdHoc network support in Windows, just get this simple device that will may a wired connection into a wireless one.

Heading to the Oregon coast this week.

Good deals on rental cars.

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We had a little excitement on our train trip to Narita airport yesterday. I've not seen details in the news, but we heard at the time that there was an injury accident or suicide which blocked the line leading to our Tokyo station.

So, rather than take the JR Narita Express from Shinagawa, we had to transfer to the Nippori station on the Yamanote line, and then take the Keisei Railways train to Narita.

It was a little nerve wracking - but thankfully we had our guide, Miwako with us, who was able to quickly get us from one station to the next. We made it to our gate about 1/2 hour before we boarded the plane for Los Angeles!

We heard other people on our plane also say they had to do the same thing to make the flight - so it was a big mess.

The final set of our Japan trip photographs - we spent the full day visiting Kyoto shrines and temples (and didn't even scratch the surface!)

Jam-packed day of sightseeing around Kyoto today. Japan 2008 map updated.

New pictures from Japan added to album.