Tokyo
November 4 – 11 2024, Japan. (I’m writing this travel log based on memory 1 1/2 years after the fact.) This was my first trip to Japan. My boyfriend Shawn […]
Monthly Archives: March 2026
Homeward Bound
September 25 – October 2, Mexico to US. I hated the checkpoints I’d encountered in Sonora and Sinaloa and wanted to avoid them on my return home. I contacted the […]
Puebla
September 21 – 25, Mexico. I was reluctant to leave Tlaxcala, as I had a wonderful Airbnb and a great experience wandering around the historic city. But I wanted to […]
Tlaxcala
September 17 – 21 2024, Mexico. I had a relaxing few days in Tlaxcala. My AirBnb, the most comfortable and spacious I’ve yet stayed in, was centrally located a few […]
Chingnahuapan
September 8 – 17 2024, Mexico. It was hard to leave Kari, Oskar, and Cohan. They had taken me in, given me their own room, and treated me like family. […]
Exploring Vancouver Island
July – August, 1985. I left Paul Song’s OrcaLab on Hanson Island to try my hand at hiking the West Coast trail. Paul gave me a ride across Johnstone Strait […]
Meeting Orca
June – July 1985, Vancouver Island. I had been selected as one of several undergraduates to assist two marine biologists doing research on social behavior of orcas in Alert Bay/Telegraph […]
Lisa Karpinski 