My Travels 2004 and after
www.ikemi.info/mytravel.html

For travels 2003 and earlier go to www.ikemi.info/old2003/mytravel.html

• Jan 1, 2009 Shogatsu at Weller Court and the Japanese Village, Little Tokyo, Photos
• Dec 31 A trip to the Getty Museum, Photos
• Dec 28 My Annual bicycle ride from Santa Ana to Solana  Beach Photos
• Dec 14 A sample dog walk through Debs Park Photos
• Nov 29 A visit to the Chinese and Japanese Gardens of the Huntington Library. Photos
• Nov 2 Japanese Dance at Descanso Garden Photos
• Aug 28 Evergreen Aviation Museum Photos
• Aug 25 Trip to Alaska Trip Rports here
• Los Angeles to Bellingham, WA Photos
• Bellingham to Hanines, AK on the ferry Photos
• Haines to Anchorage Photos
• Train to Denali Photos
• Denali flightseeing Photos
• Anchorage to Fairbanks and the University Museum Photos
• Point Barrow Photos
• Fairbanks to Dawson via The Top of the World Highway Photos
• Dawson City, Yukon Territory Photos
• Dawson City to Whitehorse Photos
• Skagway by train and bus Photos
• From Whitehorse, down the Alcan, and Finally to Seattle. Starts with Beringia. Photos
• San Juan Island Photos
• Flying Heritage Collection, Everett, WA Photos
• Final leg home from Oregon to L.A. with stops at Tule Lake and the Nevada Railroad Museum at Carson. Photos
• Aug 24 Nisei Week Ondo Photos
• Aug 17 Nisei Week Parade Photos
• Aug 2 Gardena Buddhist Temple Obon Photos
• Aug 1 Summer Dance Party Photos
• July 25-27 Comic Con Photos
• July 21 Venice Obon Photos
• July 20 Pasadena Obon Photos
• July 13 Zenshuji Obon Photos, Nishi Hongwanji Obon Photos
• July 5 San Fernando Obon Photos
• July 4-6 Anime Expo Photos
• June 29 Gardena Festival Photos, Long Beach Japanese Cultural Center Festival Photos
• June 22 West Covina Obon Photos
• May 27 Ewoldsen Trail hike Photo Gallery
• May 25 Castle Rock Hike Photo Gallery
• May 23-26 Fanimecon Photo Gallery and Masquerade Photo Gallery
• May 18 Hike to Eagle Rock Photo Gallery
• May 17 Rededication of Lancaster Japanese American Memorial Photo Gallery
• May 16, 2008 Karaoke night at Calanimageeta Photo Gallery
• May 15, 2008 Asian Pacific Islander Heritage Month Festival Photo Gallery
• May 4, Sunset Ridge to Inspiration Point hike. Photo Gallery
• April 27, 2008 Festival of Books, Photo Gallery
• April 19, 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival, Monterey Park, Photo Gallery
• April 5, 2008 Cherry Blossom Festival in Little Tokyo Photo Gallery
• March 29, 2008 Mammoth cross country skiing Photo Gallery
• March 20, 2008 Sandia Peak Tram Photo Gallery
• March 15, 2008 Tour de Sewer Photo Gallery
• Feb 29, 2008 Trip to Mammoth Mountain Photo Gallery
• Feb 17, 2008 Day of Rembrance at the JANM Photo Gallery
• Feb 17, 2008 San Gabriel Chinese New Year Parade Photo Gallery
• Feb 10, 2008 Chinatown Firecracker 10K. Photo Gallery
• Feb 1-5 Telemarking and cross country skiing at Big Sky Montana Photo Gallery
• January 1, 2008 Shogatsu festival at Weller Court, Little Tokyo Photo Gallery
• Dec 30, 2007 Bicycle ride from Santa Ana Amtrak station to Solana Beach. Plan was to ride to San Diego, but I broke my chain 2 miles past Solana Beach, and I didn't have a chain breaker with me. Photo Gallery
• Dec 7, 2007, Holiday Dance Party, Photo Gallery
• Dec 1,2 Japan Expo, Photo Gallery
• Trip to Jordan and Egypt, Nov 8-24, 2007
  • Amman, Jordan Photo Gallery
  • Jerash Roman ruins, Photo Gallery
  • The Dead Sea, Photo Gallery
  • Petra, Photo Gallery
  • Wadi Rum, Photo Gallery
  • Aqaba, Jordan, Photo Gallery
  • To Darhab, Egypt, Photo Gallery
  • To Mt. Sinai, Photo Gallery
  • St. Katherine's Monastery, Photo Gallery
  • Cairo, Photo Gallery
  • Alexandria, Photo Gallery
  • Old Cairo, Photo Gallery
• Nov 4 Japanese Dance at the Descanso Gardens, Photo Gallery
• Oct. 30Laws Railroad Museum , Photo Gallery
• Oct 7 Passadena Gakuen Bazaar, Photo Gallery
• Oct 6 East San Gabriel Japanese Community Center Fall Festival, Photo Gallery
• Sept 29 Tenrikyo Akimatsuri, Photo Gallery
• Sept 7 Mikomicon at Cal State Northridge, Photo Gallery
• Aug 26 Nisei Week Ondo, Photo Gallery
• Aug 19 Nisei Week Parade, Photo Gallery
• Aug 5 Gardena Obon, Photo Gallery
• Aug 4 San Diego Obon, Photo Gallery
• Aug 4 San Diego Air & Space Museum visit, Photo Gallery
• Aug 4, Balboa Park, Photo Gallery
• July 29, Higashi Obon, Photo Gallery
• July 27-29 Comicon, Photo Gallery
• July 22 Venice Obon, Photo Gallery
• July 15 Pasadena Obon, Photo Gallery
• July 2, APPN Luau, Photo Gallery
• July 8-9 King's Canyon, Paradise Valley, Photo Gallery
• July 7 Zenshuji Obon, Photo Gallery
• Jun 30-July 1 Anime Expo, Photo Gallery
• June 23 Sunland Obon, Photo Gallery
• June 22 Venice Obon, Photo Gallery
• June 14 Oxnard Obon, Photo Gallery
• June 7 Nishi Hongwanji Ondo, Photo Gallery
• June 7 Zenshuji Obon, Photo Gallery
• Jun 3 Oodles of Noodles Photo Gallery
• May 27 Big Basin, Berry Creek Falls hike Photo Gallery
• May 26 Fanime Photo Gallery
• May 20 Mammoth Photo Gallery
• May 20 China Lake Museum, Photo Gallery
• May 9 APAHM APPN celebration, Photo Gallery
• April 28 West Covina Cherry Blossom Festival, Photo Gallery
• April 21 Bunka Sai Cultural Festival, Photo Gallery
• April 1 Cherry Blossom Festival Photo Gallery Photo Gallery
• March 25 Mammoth Mountain Photo Gallery Photo Gallery
• March 18 Harding Trail, Tucker Wildlife Center to Laurel Spring Photo Gallery
• March 17 Tour de Sewer Photo Gallery
• Feb 18 Went with my mother and younger sister to the Getty Villa
• Feb 11 Firecracker 10K Photo Gallery
• Jan 27 Visited Anime LA
• Jan 14, 2007 Topanga Canyon loop hike Photo Gallery
• Jan 6, 2007 Kotohajime Photo Gallery
• Jan 1, 2007 Shogatsu in Weller Court Photo Gallery
• Dec 29, 2006Another bicycle ride to Solana Beach Photo Gallery
• Dec 23 The Getty Museum Photo Gallery Photo Gallery
• Dec 10 La Jolla Canyon hike Photo Gallery
• Nov 18 Japan Expo Photo Gallery
• Nov 2-17, 2006 Vacation in Southern Italy:
  • Rome Photo Gallery
  • Agrigento Photo Gallery
  • Baths of Diocletian Photo Gallery
  • Museo Borghese grounds Photo Gallery
  • Capitoline Hill and Museums Photo Gallery
  • Isle of Capri Photo Gallery
  • Caserta Photo Gallery
  • Castellana Photo Gallery
  • Etna Photo Gallery
  • Naples Photo Gallery
  • Palermo Photo Gallery
  • Pompeii Photo Gallery
  • Selinunte Photo Gallery
  • Sorrento Photo Gallery
  • Syracuse Photo Gallery
  • Taormina Photo Gallery
  • Taranto Photo Gallery
  • Tivoli Photo Gallery
  • Vatican Photo Gallery
• Oct 7 Aki Matsuri in West Covina Photo Gallery
• Sept 21 Hacpacker picnic Photo Gallery
• Sept 16-17 San Francisco Japan Town Animation Faire ( Photo Gallery) and return trip via Route 1 Photo Gallery
• Sept 10 Orange County Japanese Cultural Festival Photo Gallery
• Sept 9 Performance by the LA amateur Chinese Opera Photo Gallery
• August 21 Ondo at Nisei Week Photo Gallery
• Aug 12-13 Car Camping at Lake Sabrina, hikes to Paiute Pass and LaMarck Lake Photo Gallery
• July 30 Hike to Cucamonga Peak Photo Gallery
• July 8 Zenshuji Obon Festival Photo Gallery and visits to other Obons Photo Gallery
• July 3, 4 Anime Expo in Anaheim
• July 1,2 Overnight backpacking trip to Paradise Valley in King's Canyon. Photo Gallery
• July 1 Visited the Japanese Art Institute Photo Gallery
• June 24, 25 Overnight backpacking trip to the Mt. Lowe Campground Photo Gallery
• May 26, 27 Fanime in San Jose Photo Gallery, Moffet Field Museum ( Photo Gallery), and Hiller Aviation Museum Photo Gallery
• May 21 Oakwild Loop hike Photo Gallery Photo Gallery
• May 13 Family Festival at the JACCC Photo Gallery
• May 6 West Covina Cherry Blossom Festival Photo Gallery
• April 22, 23 car trip to Mammoth Photo Gallery
• April 8 Tour de Sewer Photo Gallery
• March 25, 26 Bus trip to Mammoth
• February 25, 26 Bus trip to Mammoth Photo Gallery
• February 12, 2006 Firecracker 10K in Downtown LA Chinatown and Elysian Park. Photos
• February 4, 2006 The Golden Dragon Parade in Downtown LA Chinatown. Photos
• January 29, 2006 Anime LA Con. Photos
• January 15, 2006 I joined the Hacpackers for a walk in Aliso/Woods Canyon. Photos.
• January 1, 2006 went to Japanese New Year at Weller Court. Rained out, but the last act kept going. Photos
• December 27, 2005 finally made the ride from Santa Ana to Solana Beach. Photos
• December 11 I went with the HacPackers to Topanga State Park. photos
• Nov 11-22, 2005 Greece
  • Athens and vicinity
  • The Agora in Athens
  • The Acropolis
  • Thermopylae
  • Delphi
  • Olympia
  • Epidaurus
  • Meteora
  • Mycenae
  • Hosios Loukas
  • Mystra
  • Sparta
  • Theater of Dionysus
  • The Roman Agora
• Nov 5, 2005 Anime Destiny in Berkeley photos
• Oct 29,30, 2005 Anime Vegas photos, hiking
• Oct 1-2, 2005 AniMagic general photos, masquerade
• September 3,4, 2005 PMX, Photos
• August 13, 2005 Nisei Week Photos, Aug 14 the Nisei Week parade, Aug 21 ondo
• August 7, 2005 I went to the Gardena obon photos
• July 31, 2005 I went to the West LA Buddhist Temple obon photos
• July 23, 2005 Higashi Hongwanji obon Photos
• July 16,17, 2005 I made my annual pilgrammage to Comic-Con in San Diego. Photos
• July 10, 2005 Zenshuji Temple obon photos
• July 1-4, 2005 I attended Anime Expo. Photos
• June 19, 2005 I finally visited the Palm Springs Air Museum. Photos
• June 5, 2005 went to Oodles of Noodles in Torrance. Photos
• May 27-29, 2005 Went to Fanime at the San Jose Convention Center. General photos of the Con. Masquerade Photos. Side trip to Hakone Gardens.
• May 13 and 14, 2005 went to Mammoth and went X-country skiing and finally bought a lift pass to use my telemark skis. Had such a good time I forgot to take photos.
• May 7, 2005 visited the West Covina Cherry Blossom Festival. Photos
• May 1, 2005 went for a hike in Placerita Canyon. Photos
• April 17, 2005 I made another trip to Manzanar
• April 2, 2005 I visited the Pasadena Cherry Blossom Festival. Photos
• March 26 &27, 2005 I went to Mammoth with the ASBCLA. I managed to forget my telemark boots before I went. Photos
• March 19, 2005 I completed the Tour de Sewer Metric Century in spite of the rain. photos
• February 13, 2005 I completed (somehow) the Chinatown Fireracker 10K photos
• February 12, 2005 I watched the Chinatown Lunar New Year parade. photos
• January 29-30, 2005 I attended Anime LA. Photos
• January 1, 2005 Japanese New Year at Weller Court in Little Tokyo photos.
• December 21, 2004 I bicycled to the Huntington Library for a quick visit. Photos.
• December 19, 2004 I returned to Chantry Flats for the third time and finally completed the loop to Mt. Zion via Sturtevant falls, Spruce Grove Campground, Sturtevant, Mt. Zion, and Hoegee's. Photos.
• December 3, 2004 Hughes Social Dance Club December Dance
• November 28, 2004 I went to the Getty Center and took photos with my G6
• November 27, 2004 I made it to Japan Expo and took lots of photos with the *istD.
• November 26, 2004 I bicycled up to Chantry Flats and then took the short trail to Sturtevant Falls. Photos with a Nikon 4100.
• November 14, 2004 I went up to Berkeley to see Anime Destiny (Photos) at Cal and on the 15th I finally made it to Pinnacles National Monument to hike around the park. Had a greate time there. Photos.
• November 9, 2004 I went for a walk at the LA Arboretum and took pictures after I found that the road to Chantry Flat was closed.
• November 6, 2004 I went to Akibiyori in Fullerton. Photos.
• November 5, 2004 I took photos at the Hughes Social Dance Club November Ball
• October 31, 2004 I caught part of the Autumn Festival at the Van Nuys Japanese Garden.
• October 28, 2004 I took some photos at the Halloween meeting of the UCLA Japanese Animation Club
• October 17, 2004 I participated in Aidswalk and of course took photos.
• October 8-10, 2004 I went with my mother and sister to the Poston I reunion in Laughlin. On the way home I rode part of old Route 66.
  • Poston reunion luncheon and dinner
  • Trip to the memorial
  • Trip to the ruins of the auditorium and school
  • Some shots from getting there and back, plus the London Bridge in Lake Havasu.
• October 1-3, 2004 I went to part of Ani-Magic, this year in Santa Clarita instead of Lancaster. Photos
• Sept 18, 2004 I participated in the Heartwalk in El Segundo. Photos of course!
• Sept10-13, 2004 I took a trip to San Francisco, stopping at Paso Robles on the way back for wine tasting. I visited the Japan Town in San Francisco and attended the Anime Fair while I was there. Here are my photos.
• August 21, 2004 I checked out the Norton Simon Museum and the Rajput exhibit.
• August 15, 2004 I was at the Nisei Week Ondo (Japanese dancing) and closing ceremonies.
• August 8, 2004 I took some photos at the Nisei Week Parade
• July 27-Aug 2, 2004 I took a trip to the East Coast where I visited:
  • Udvar-Hazy Museum of the NASM in Chantilly where I took some photos
  • Manassas Battlefield also known as Bull run and my photos
  • Hillwood Museum and Gardens and my photos
  • International Spy Museum
  • Otakon in Baltimore
  • The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore
  • Antietam Battlefield near Sharpsburg, North of Harpers Ferry, and my photos of Antietam
• July 22-25, 2004 I was in San Diego where I attended Comic Con, the Shakespeare Festival at The Old Globe, the local theater festival at the Lyceum Theater, visitied the Midway, and the San Diego Aerospace Museum. When I got back home I caught part of the Higashi Hongwanji Obon Carnival.
• July 17, 2004 I went to the Pasadena Obon Carnival and the 18th went to the Venice Obon Carnival for the first time.
• July 10-11, 2004 I visited the CAF museum in Camarillo, the Oxnard Obon Carnival, and the Zenshuji Obon Carnival in Little Tokyo.
• July 2-4, 2004 I attended Anime Expo in Anaheim and took some pictures. I took a break on Saturday and went to the West Covina Obon festival.
• June 6, 2004 I saw the first part of the cultural performances at the Torrance Oodles of Noodles Festival.
• Memorial Day Weekend I went to the Pacific Media Expo at the Anaheim Convention Center with Calanimage Eta. I did take a few pictures and some video.
• May 9, 2004 I made it to Little Tokyo to see a little of the Mother's Day events. I caught one of the Hawaiian dance performances at the JACCC plaza and the Okinawan music and dance recital at the Little Tokyo Mall
• May 2, 2004 I went to the Awaya-Kai Koto recital at El Caminto College
• April 3, 2004 I made a touch and go at the the Pasadena Cherry Blossom Festival and on the 4th I did the same at the Thai New Years festival in Hollywood.
• March 27 and 28, 2004 I made my second trip of the year to Mammoth to use my telemark skis.
• March 20, 2004 I successfully completed, for once, the Bell Gardens Tour de Sewer bike ride.
• March 14, 2004 I went to Little Tokyo to see the pageant of riders dressed as Samurai on horseback.
• March 13, 2004 I bicycled from the Santa Ana Amtrak station to the Solana Beach station.
• February 29, 2004 I took a ride on my new SV1000 Suzuki to Balboa Park in San Diego to check out the George Nakashima exhibit at the Mingei Museum.
• On Feb. 8, 2004 for the first time in many yearts I staggered through a 10K, the Chinatown Firecracker.
• Jan 31, 2004 I took a cross country ski trip from the Mammoth Main Lodge to Devil's Postpile. Unfortunately, I didn't plan that well and I needed a ride out part of the way from a kind snow mobilier.
• The following weekend I went to the Shogatsu ceremonies at the JACCC and the JANM
• Jan 1, 2004 I went to Little Tokyo to observe the Japanese New Year (Shogatsu) celebrations at Weller Square and Little Tokyo Village.