Sapporo

 Apologies for my lack of attention to the blog. I continue to struggle with my sinus infection/cold and the prolonged coughing fits have made it very difficult to sleep leading to exhaustion. Two trips to the medic so far with several different remedies attempted. It seems to be improving a bit. Cindy has a weaker version for which I am likely responsible and hopefully she will respond better than me. We are soon off the boat with more to deal with.

We did walk around Sapporo a bit. I skipped the four hour tour, but tolerated a slow walk pretty well. Sapporo (yes the home of Sapporo beer) is much quieter than the locations we will soon visit. We found a machine to exchange money because many smaller locations do not take credit cards. A few photos follow.

Cindy has purchased eSIMS for our phones so we can find our way around and use the translation apps. Text translation has been available for some time, but it is the translation of a visual input that I find very impressive. Cindy created two screen captures from her phone to show how this works. Google Translate is the app.

Cindy puts up with my humor when she is often the target of my photos. She made me add this photo. She sent it some folks who we sometimes travel with and know what I like to target in my photos. She calls the picture - Mark works hard to find a way to take a picture without people.