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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Poet’s true calling & Artist’s vocation with Sōseki Natsume’s Kusamakura
Checking in from a park in Myoko, Niigata with the incredibly powerful creative manifesto at the beginning of Natsume Sōseki’s
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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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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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Trains, various snippets – from Tottori to Okayama
Splitting by bus from Misasa to Kurayoshi, then by train to Tottori city, and then across mountains passing hamlets to
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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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“to walk & to listen” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.6
After a long hot soak with some unexpected (and usually not-allowed) colourful characters, sitting outside with a statue commemorating the
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snow day, slow lunch – Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.5
In amongst my hot spring soak, on a snowy morning… well mid-day, I enjoy a lingering long lunch, talking about
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“our lady of Radium” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.4
Radon, derived from radium is the central magic potion to these Hot Springs so, as such I wondered towards a
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“tea & oranges” Misasa ♨️ Sojourn, p.3
Back at my lil “café nook” from the outdoor bath – because that is what I do, I take baths,
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“we are not 2, we are 1” Misasa ♨️ sojourn, p.2
Carrying on with personal archeology for biographers who may never emerge, I sit (respectfully of course) at the shrine –
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“i’ve got this gift” Misasa ♨️ sojourn, p. 1
Arriving in a mountain valley village of Misasa, Tottori – holding loads of memories from a previous life – for
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Japan Renegade Travel Musings (specifically *not* Tokyo, Kyoto and Osaka)
Adventure Tour Guide Ted Taylor and DaveO riff in a historic Kura barn in Tsuchida, Okayama, Japan talking about exploring…
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