Well after a long layover at JFK airport and an even longer flight to Shanghai, I finally made it to my destination: Sapporo, Japan. After checking into my hostel I went out to explore the city when I ended up in Odori Park. Odori Park is a rather nice park in downtown Sapporo, somewhat near Susukino (a very popular red-light district). One end there’s Sapporo TV Tower and on the other end there’s the Sapporo City Archive Museum. »
Over this past weekend I went to the Tibet-Butler Nature Perserve in Orlando, Florida. The Tibet-Butler Preserve offers a spot of wilderness in the dense urban mass of downtown Disney to the west of Orlando. The trial system loops through many of the major habitats found in this region, including longleaf pine forest and scrub, bayhead swamp, and cypress-lined lakeshore. Unfortunately when I went, two of the trails—which included the largest trail—were closed do to flooding. »