A Few Ticket Stubs
Someone out there probably has quite a collection of these. Some of them were certainly beautiful.
Rinko: Traveling with Your Bike in Japan
Traveling with your bike in Japan is not that hard, you just have to remember three simple things: cleanliness, expediency, and patience. There is no way a train conductor is going to let you and your filthy bike roll on to his train.
Bicycling the Noto Peninsula
Sure, there were a few stiff climbs, but I'd classify the five days to get around the Noto Peninsula as a leisurely ride with some of the best bicycling touring I've experienced.
Haiku for Weary Husband
I tried to write haiku every day while in Japan, but the only good ones came when considering my husband's utter collapse climbing the stiff little hills, no mere speed bumps, that constitute the majority of Japan.
Sōji-ji: A Night in a Zen Monastery
Staying the night with the generous Zen monks of Sōji-ji was one of the highlights of our trip to Japan. There's sometimes advantages to showing up unannounced on bicycles.
Off the bike in Kanazawa
Spared being flattened in World War Two and out on the edge of 'Japan' (as far as I can tell), Kanazawa is known as a "Little Kyoto". I haven't been to them all, so I can't say how apt this sobriquet is.
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.
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.
