User:(WT-en) Paul Richter



I'm a native of Tokyo, Japan, and that's my home. I previously spent 15 years living in Seattle, Washington with very frequent visits to Portland, Oregon (but incredibly not a single one to Vancouver, British Columbia).

I tend to see the world in three-month chunks:


 * 1990 - Ten weeks of Eurailing and hosteling in Europe, five months after the Berlin Wall fell: Spain, France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg, United Kingdom
 * 1997 - Three months bicycling through Southeast Asia : Vietnam, Thailand, Laos, Hong Kong, China, Macau
 * 2000 - Three months criscrossing Brazil by bus

Also
 * 2004/2005/2006 - A total of 5 months (so far) working in Sweden, with visits to Denmark and Norway.
 * 2004 - Flying to the complete opposite side of the world and back - Bolivia
 * 2005 - Discovering Japan for a change! A week in Yaeyama
 * 2007 - A pitifully short visit to Shanghai.
 * 2008 - Saipan.
 * 2011 - Return to Brazil
 * every 3 years or so - Seattle, Portland, and Corvallis

Prospective future destinations??
 * Papua New Guinea
 * Vladivostok - just a quick hop over from Niigata

Other travel-related topics I'm interested in :
 * Public transportation
 * Bicycling (non-competitive)
 * Exotic foods, especially insects
 * Languages and writing systems

I work as a software engineer, but I've given up on gaining significant expertise in that area. I go by the same name on Wikipedia.

Photos

 * (WT-en) Bolivia
 * (WT-en) Japan
 * (WT-en) Scandinavia