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Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hiking. Show all posts
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Monday, November 26, 2007
normal
anyone who travels as part of their job must feel the same way i do today.every so often, you need to have a normal day. a day when you do laundry, or stay in your hotel room most of the day. a day when you just can't feel guilty for not having an adventure. a day when, even though you're in a foreign country, thousands of miles from home, you have to stop being a tourist and just do nothing.
besides the fact that i feel a little cruddy.
Saturday, November 17, 2007
nikko pt. 3: backwoods onigiri
where better to eat some mushroom onigiri than in the middle of the woods?
nikko pt. 2: monkey wa doko desu ka?
he was on my hike to ryuzu falls. he and his whole monkey family, actually. to answer your question: yes, their butts are as bright red as their faces. he's a macaque, by the way.UPDATE / 11.18.07 --
i wonder if former senator george allen has been to nikko?
Friday, November 16, 2007
nikko pt. 1: long shadows
maybe you can hear the hint of worry in my voice.
i know for many people, this might not seem terribly adventurous. but we were in nikko -- two hours outside of tokyo -- and i was an hour bus ride from the nikko train station where i'd left rob and kimberly, and two hours by foot after that. they went to see shrines, i went on a hike to a waterfall.
it was a great hike, but there's that moment when you don't know for certain you're going to make it back from the hike before dark. once you do, you have to get on the right bus, to make it to the right train, to take you "home" to tokyo. i'd already gotten on the wrong bus to get to the trail. (at one stop, the driver turned and looked at me, sitting all the way in back, and said four of the six english words he knew -- "where are you going?" when i told him, "lake chuzenji", he shook his head and said the other two -- "wrong bus".)
all in all, it was a fantastic day. but moments of small desperation tend make it all the more real.
i know for many people, this might not seem terribly adventurous. but we were in nikko -- two hours outside of tokyo -- and i was an hour bus ride from the nikko train station where i'd left rob and kimberly, and two hours by foot after that. they went to see shrines, i went on a hike to a waterfall.
it was a great hike, but there's that moment when you don't know for certain you're going to make it back from the hike before dark. once you do, you have to get on the right bus, to make it to the right train, to take you "home" to tokyo. i'd already gotten on the wrong bus to get to the trail. (at one stop, the driver turned and looked at me, sitting all the way in back, and said four of the six english words he knew -- "where are you going?" when i told him, "lake chuzenji", he shook his head and said the other two -- "wrong bus".)
all in all, it was a fantastic day. but moments of small desperation tend make it all the more real.
Thursday, November 8, 2007
tokyo again
this photo has already appeared on tony-clements.com, but i think it's beautiful. it's what rob and i found at the end of our hike of mount otake.
a beautiful summit, and someone's bright, clean blankets waving in the light breeze.
and serenity.
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