Items from Slow Fraser (Vancouver etc), edibles
items from Canada (edible etc.) Weeks since home from the Slow Fraser trip to Vancouver, Langley, New Westminster etc. And […]
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so, you’re coming to Japan? oh good! dig tactics
yes, yet another overview of traveling around Japan, possibly with links to other narratives and videos about traveling around Japan. Usual variety of tips, anecdotes, tactics and my love of minor provincial cities, goat farms, coffee, tea and jazz… Plus post offices well, you know all this by now
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Nagasaki Ramble, Feb. 2020, part 2 (baths, bombs, bevvies… more trains)
Unnecessary Preamble: part 2 of a trip to Nagasaki in February 2020 – we were in pregnancy mode, visiting relatives,
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Bashō haiku, with a view
septemberick highways and byways of Japan feature often spectacular, usually interesting, and always unique roadside service areas sometimes gift shops,
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Scrapbook, Calligraphy and Poetry decompression
Home from the Olson O-bon Onsen Ocean journey, readjusting to “normal life” of laundry, medical appointments, schedules, unpacking and all
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Showa TeeVees (at Lake Biwa museum)
Turn off yer TeeVee (put it in a museum and listen to the rain) Amongst fossilized freshwater fish, recreations of
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Lake Biwa, Shiga-ken: Museum Dispatch
A last minute entry to Lake Biwa Museum with a cornucopia from: Plus overhead freshwater fish environments; to reconstructed elephant
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Hello & Good-bye from Noto, post earthquakes & whatnot
A very brief check in from a peninsula sticking out like a witch finger towards Siberia, with stellar nature, endless
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Grand Maizuru Field Notes to Pals
Awkwardly on Hiroshima day with the model of a Zero fighter plane and battleship (with merchandise available for purchase) behind
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Field Notes: Japanese Cemetery, Walville (WA, USA) / Jan. 2010
“such an interesting slice of Japanese Vancouver history (of which there is so much!). Reminds of a cemetery i came
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Summer Schemes and Dreams
Since the borders reopened, we’ve gratefully welcomed 35+ travelers and groups of various sizes to our beloved, underappreciated home city
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Expo-ing, Modeling & Rambling
Spontaneous riffs about trip to Expo 2025 in Osaka (yes, they still do those world expos) with all the sensory
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How to Japan, Good – let’s enjoy handy tips for exploration
So many pals coming to Japan and wow, so much to do so i made a barely legible list (onm
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“i miss folding your laundry” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn montage
A not-quite-documentary. A semi-sincere travelogue. A heartfelt dispatch from the radium-scented alleyways of Misasa, Tottori—a place I once called home
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“letting the days go by” Misasa ♨️ Soujourn, p.7
After yet another long soak in an outdoor bath – this time with a loudmouth geezer running his mouth about
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