A guest traveler video post from Davey Dance, a friend from college. This will make you laugh, I promise.

(Tokyo, Japan) Since I left Iowa in August of 2006 to circle the globe, I’ve slept on numerous types of beds, couches, cots, futons, and other sleeping amenities, but so far Japan has offered the must memorable: a capsule hotel. Spread throughout Japan, capsule hotels offer small, clean, efficient and cheap places to stay (about $US40/night).The actual sleeping part isn’t much to write home about, but the most memorable part of my stay happened well before I nestled into the bristly hotel sheets, as I paraded around stark naked with a half dozen fat, hairy Japanese business men pampering myself with oils, shampoos and UV sanitized hair combs.

“To the uninitiated, harajuku style can look like what might happen if a 5-year-old girl jacked up on liquor and goofballs decided to become a stylist.” It’s possible there were some goofballs and liquor in one of the about half dozen crepes I ate when I visited Harajuku, but I loved the whole scene.

A guest traveler post by Nicole Bruskewitz, backpacking from Mexico through Central and South America for more than a year.