Name that Market...

We're home!  And I am wide awake at 4:00 AM thanks to jet lag... sigh.

I've been spending my jet lagged AM hours looking at pictures.  Some of my favorites are of the various markets we encountered on our trip.

See if you can match the countries (Singapore, Cambodia, Malaysia, Thailand, Japan) to the pictures that correspond below (one country is featured twice): 

Market #1

Market #2

Market #3

Market #4

Market #5

Market #6

Sayonara

Getting on a plane in a few hours and headed back to reality.

Tokyo clues explained.

If you are a film buff or an 80s music buff, you probably figured out our final location was Tokyo... I guess I was in more of pop culture mood (rather than a history/politics mood) when I wrote the last set of clues.
We made a point to watch the Oscar-winning "Lost in Translation" again recently in anticipation of our visit to Tokyo.  Sausalito was the cliche-jazz band that performed in Park Hyatt's New York Bar in the movie (and you may recall that Bill Murray's character ends up hooking up with the lead singer).
Thanks to a promotion from signing up for a Hyatt credit card, we are actually staying at the Park Hyatt.  I am pretty sure we are about the only people to check in to this hotel ever with backpacks for luggage and arriving on foot after walking 10 minutes from the train station.
I also can't help but think of karaoke and  two of the best karaoke songs of all time when I think of Tokyo... The Vapor's "Turning Japanese" and the Styx "Mr. Roboto" (from the "Kilroy Was Here" album).  Hopefully we'll get a chance to do karaoke when we are in Japan... but unfortunately, I don't have the masterful skills necessary to pull off either of those songs.

Tokyo

Thanks to my friend Kaz, an English teacher at a high school in Tokyo, we had an amazing day in yesterday and even more exciting things planned for today, including a trip on the bullet train and a Japanese fireworks festival.

Final clue

We have arrived to our last destination.  Here is one last picture clue to go along with the other pop culture themed clues.  Think movie posters.

Destination nine clues

This is our final destination...

SAUSALITO GIGS HERE
VAPORS FAV CITY
KILROY'S BEST

Elvis sighting

Spotted Elvis last night outside a British pub in the Wan Chai neighborhood in Hong Kong.