ChapmanNotes

a photo-blog, featuring the travels and ramblings of a bird-watcher and food-enjoyer


  • Tokyo Disneyland

    Tokyo Disneyland

    Day 2, Tokyo “Just come out the south entrance. I’m elevated on some stairs right out front” Navigation in Tokyo is remarkably intuitive. As long as you have a smartphone, Google Maps, and can follow giant color-coded arrows and markers throughout the train stations, you have a high chance of getting where you intend to…

  • Ohayo gozaismasu

    Ohayo gozaismasu

    Good morning – Day 1 in Tokyo Our first day in Tokyo began early. Brittney and I both woke up before our alarms around 6:30, so we decided to get a head-start on our morning and explore the neighborhood around our AirBnB. To our surprise practically nothing opens in Japan before 8AM, not even the…

  • Konnichiwa

    Konnichiwa

    Day 0 in Japan It has been a 29-hour long day. We began by picking up our friends at 2AM and driving to Nashville International Airport, and ended in a tiny AirBnB in the largest city in the world. As travel days in a new land go, all is well, in the sense that the…

  • Downtown Huntsville Street Art

    Downtown Huntsville Street Art

    Believe it or not, Huntsville has more than just rockets and the military industry complex. It’s hard to walk around downtown and not stumble upon art painted on the sides of buildings or lining an alleyway. I spilled coffee on my white t-shirt mere moments before realizing my camera battery compartment was an empty void….

  • Return to Grand Rivers

    Return to Grand Rivers

    On the night of September 30, 2017, Brittney and I were spending our honeymoon at the Rose of the Lake Bed & Breakfast in Grand Rivers—a quiet town in western Kentucky situated at the entrance to the Land Between the Lakes national park. Grand Rivers is known most for Patti’s 1880’s Settlement, where the rolls…