Disguise: Hunter S. Thompson (committing to the idea)
“Dr.” Hunter S. Thompson as depicted, required the commitment to shaving a cul-de-sac through my locks. It’s all about committing
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Japan Travel Ephemera Scrapbook / Shinkonryoko Ramble
On our Shinkonryoko (honeymoon) travel, we rambled around Japan via various trains, occasional rental car, trams, busses and a coach
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Joetsu to Tokamachi, Niigata, Japan (ambient, excerpts)
Scenes out the window on a train ride from Joetsu to Tokamachi in Niigata, Japan, including stops at various stations.
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Parties + Events + Invites
Farm Plan for Party / Dave + Ryoko 4-21 Kekkon-shiki
In planning for the wedding party at Mr. Mac Kobayashi’s Rural Caprine Farm, we set out to transform his goat
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Personal Musings
Watching steps… / Shinkonryoko Ramble (garden poetry in Kanazawa)
Along the way on our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) slow travel ramble, we rode all sorts of trains which are documented in
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere – Thunderbird Limited Express Train, Japan (excerpts)
Just rolling ambient views looking out window at countryside and stations in-situ while aboard the Thunderbird Limited Express train –
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Elsewhere Scenes, Personal Musings
Tea Ceremony in Sketches
My darling Ryoko studies Japanese tea ceremony with a group of others from Okayama and Kurashiki. Recently i was invited
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Diary: Musings towards Uno + Smugglers book, provided Pyjamas, and Vancouver history
As it goes… I’m riding the Uno Bus heading to Uno to stay at Uno Port Inn near where magical
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video-dim-sum
Japan: Okayama Station to Certain Hotels: Wayfinding (from #DRO420 kekkonshiki)
This dispatch shares wayfinding tips to get from the main train station, down a covered shopping arcade, over a canal,
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Personal Musings
Munetada Shinto Shrine Primer / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
While me and Ryoko’s wedding will be a litttlllle bit unique, there are some very traditional aspects to our 3-day
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Libraries / Museums / Archives
Museum Exhibit: Kobayashi Issa (haiku master), museum and grave in Shinano, Nagano
In May 2019, Ryoko and I wandered around Japan on a shinkonryoko (honeymoon) with the aims of riding various trains,
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Portraits of the Artiste
Character(s): Resistance Fighters (from location unknown)
Resistance fighters narrowly escape their own subterfuge (w/ Kris Krüg) possibly somewhere near Flanders or Wallonia, circa 1942 (or Pasley
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Messages (poems, guestbooks, stamps etc) / Shinkonryoko Ramble
Along our shinkonryoko (honeymoon) travel, there were many chances to sign guestbooks, write notes for folks, as well as fill
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Collections of Artifacts
Wedding Speech / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Wedding Speech, Delivered by Neal Cropper at Rural Caprine Farm, April 21, 2019 (Written by Dave Olson with Neal Cropper) <Neal>
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Collections of Artifacts
Shinto Wedding Vow / Dave + Ryoko 4-20 Kekkon-shiki
Shinto wedding vow, Read by Dave and Ryoko in Unison at Munetade Jinjya (shrine), April 20, 2019 Phoneticized from Japanese
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Collection: Payphones (vol. 6) – assorted varieties / Japan Shnkonryoko ramble
Hello to the people in the future, What follows are public telephones created in a time when phones did not
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