I spent an afternoon with a remarkably interesting new friend who *lives* in Kyoto but rambles widely.
Please meet Ted Taylor – raconteur, mountain guide, writer, renegade, global rambler etc. etc.
Topics included:
* drive-away cars
* Grateful Dead shows
* Punk rock fanzines / Gilman st SF
* Various locations in Tottori / Kyushu & ohenrosan dori in Shikoku
* Lafcadio Hearn’s great great grandson playing piano
* poets including: Gary Synder, Nanao Sakaki, Kenneth Rexroth
* macro demographic changes in Japan
* visa run options
* shipping containers
* south of France / German rheinphlatz
* Smoke Blanchard / Uchida Bob
* Singapore lady & drs
* coffee in Japan (then & now), craft beers, wagyu beef burgers, tacos
* riding the ‘Hound & ‘Trak
* life in Kyoto / inland sea islands to explore / villages / not-Tokyo-Japan
* others things to be recalled at some point… this was all in a short afternoon in which we rode streetcars
More Ted at: http://notesfromthenog.blogspot.com/
+ a fella named Bob said: Dave, actually my friend Ted went easy on you if these were the only topics you covered in an afternoon…
To which i replied: my brain needed an off switch afterwards but really i am wired the same way so was like a Mcenroe v Connors 1970s tennis match of topics back and forth
