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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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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Riff: Japan, working holiday visa, 1992 (& related circumstances)
Before arriving in Japan, I really knew very little about Japan, I didn’t have an interest in Japan, didn’t care
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Field Notes: Mayne Island (B.C.) Japanese Memorial Garden, 2008
Map: Japanese Memorial Gardens (on Mayne Island) Note: further reading and resources at bottom On a snowy day in Dec.
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Personal Musings, Portraits of the Artiste
Mementos: Hamamura / Tottori Life, 5+ views, 1994
In 1994, back in Japan for the second time (after the mushroom farm incident), I made a go out of
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Collections of Artifacts, Music / Rock
Artifacts: DIY cassette goodness
To me, there is importance in preserving the efforts of “small time“ artists putting their goodness out into the
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Personal Musings
Uncovering artifacts from Tottori
Uncovering artifacts from my first time in Japan in 1992, living in Tottori, working at the mushroom farm, quitting that
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Kinfolk + Pals
Making Friends with Renegade Ted (and various topics)
I spent an afternoon with a remarkably interesting new friend who *lives* in Kyoto but rambles widely. Please meet Ted
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Field Notes, Japan Life/Travel, Tactical Wandering
Japan: Travel primer / places to go, getting around, accomms, culture, etiquette and geography
A rather rough overview originally compiled in advance of friends coming to Okayama for wedding. Re-purposed in slightly more general
Mementos: Tottori Japan Life at Enokitake (mushroom) Farm etc.
Mementos: Japan Enokitake farm: view entering the farm compound in Saji, Tottoria Note: Above photo published in Japan Times article:
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Japan Life/Travel, Transport Rolls
Rolling Elsewhere: Trains, planes and goats in Japan
Riding and visiting various trains around Okayama, Tottori and Shimane Japan, plus saying hello to some goats, and watching a
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Personal Musings
“Modernity and magical realism in rural Japan” / my photo in The Japan Times
Bob Olson writes, on Sept. 15, 2015: This photo shows a mushroom farm in Tottori, Japan, where I worked a few
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Japan Life/Travel, Personal Musings
Japan Flashback – Tottori World
Made a map of various places where I lived and worked in Tottori, Japan during 1993-4 including an enoki
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Pecha Kucha x 4
Stories from Japan ~ Inspiration from Global Pecha Kucha Day
Global Pecha Kucha to Inspire Japan I was invited to speak at Global Pecha Kucha Day in Vancouver for the worldwide
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Choogle On
Drunken Japanese Petenque Storytime – Choogle On! #64
Wandering the streets of Austin with old pal Yaki Niku, Uncle Weed recounts a strange international steel ball tossing tournament
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