Thanks for Breakfast!
While I sip coffee, Vic earns the gratitude of the ladies who lunch. Or breakfast, as the case may be.
Rolling to the Noto Peninsula
Two days into our tour and we're over the spine of Japan ready for a ride along the sea.
Twenty Four Hours in Nara
Sacred deer, Japanese pizza, amazing sculpture along with really big and really old temples: Nara. Given short shift in the guidebooks, I would have gladly stayed a few more days.
Training and Unknowing for Japan
...it seems almost pointless to research about it. I figure that if my brain is going to explode in the complete otherness of it, I might as well embrace that and spend what time is left trying to keep my heart from exploding on the bicycle.
Our Rough Itinerary: Southern Japan
We made a list. We crossed some stuff off. And now we have a plan.
Touring in Japan
Besides my love of izakaya, Japanese maples, and a quarter of ancient Japanese art taken in college, I am surprisingly ignorant about it. For example, are we or are we not going to see snow monkeys sitting in hot springs? I thought we had to go to some place remote in Hokadio, which seems out...
The Mauve Room
If you've ever been at my house, at a restaurant, or out camping with me as I start to whine just a little about how things aren't just so, you've probably seen Victor lean in and say "Mauve!"
This blog started, as many do, to keep the friends up to date while I was traveling. In my case, a long bike ride across Europe and move from Seattle to Boston in 2004.
