Tokyo Sunrise
After returning from my trip to the Philippines last November I thought that that was the end of my work travel, at least for a few months. That was just fine with me, since two back-to-back cross-Pacific Ocean missions left me with a mountain of work to attend to, a befuddled internal clock, and a wife who was very much looking forward to not having to look after a dog on her own. We did indeed enjoy a nice, chill December of not going anywhere farther away than Kenilworth Park (I'll get around to writing a blog post about chill winter birding at some point). I expected that to continue for a couple of months, but just as I was about to go on holidays I received a request from work colleagues to help with a workshop that was going to be held in Tokyo of all places. I had a separate project in Indonesia that needed attending to around the same time, so with relatively little warning I was preparing for yet another work trip back to Asia. I arrived in Tokyo the evening...