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Fortuitous Travel: Kiyomizu-dera Temple
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Tuesday, October 17, 2006. Local cuisine offers sustenance. For the final ascent. Orange gateway to temple on a steep hill. Washing hands before entering. School kids on a field trip. Most temples will have someone on duty to inscribe temple books with calligraphy. A visitor can buy a book at one temple and then have it filled with inscriptions from each temple he visits. Insensitive tourist tries to pick up local girls. Of, the strangenesses?
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Fortuitous Travel: December 2006
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Sunday, December 31, 2006. Back with the Bay Area gang! Chris and Maria celebrate the New Year. I look on, concerned. To new beginnings. Happy 2007! Sunday, December 24, 2006. Christmas Eve, Roppongi. Goodbye Tokyo. Goodbye Japan. Goodbye Mochy and Michiko and Yuriko and Poem and Py and Ruko and Mishy and Moe and everyone else I was fortunate enough to meet. Thanks for everything. I had a blast. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Christmas Eve, Roppongi.
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Fortuitous Travel: November 2006
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Wednesday, November 08, 2006. I let her out occasionally to do some sightseeing. Tokyo skyline from Mori tower. The Great Pumpkin hovers over the city. We take a five-day trip South, passing through Kyoto on the way to Beppu. Here's Kinkaku-ji, (The Golden Temple) in Kyoto. Chris finds a place to pick up some English men. Don' let the MDMA shadow-monster get you. Back sightseeing in Tokyo:. Sunday, November 05, 2006. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Fortuitous Travel: Ryoanji Temple
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Monday, October 16, 2006. After three weeks of gradual disillusionment. I finally got myself onto the Shinkansen. With my friend, Paul Weaver. Would I find the "real". In the city regarded as its spiritual home? We were met by the delightful Michy, one of the top backgammon players in. He suggested visiting the. Which was fortuitous as I had my eye on that one from the guidebooks. We approached the temple through a breath-taking landscape. This r...
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Fortuitous Travel: July 2006
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Thursday, July 20, 2006. Letter from Monte Carlo. Hello, and belated thank- you's. To all who wished me well after an amazing week (in the middle of an amazing trip)! Some highlights that didn't make it into the standard tournament results reporting:. By chance, the film crew doing the four-hour television and dvd. Checker, closed out his 13-15 th. Checkers, got hit in my bearoff. And asked for an extended follow-up interview. Has vanished and wi...
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Fortuitous Travel: September 2006
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Sunday, September 24, 2006. Asakusa with Mochy and Yuriko. We met at noon outside the famous Almond Cafe in Roppongi. They took me to a noodle bar for lunch (where they explained that it is not considered impolite to slurp when eating noodles). We talked a little about cultural differences (they had both been to Las. Vegas and Monte Carlo for backgammon). What did they find most surprising about the US? Described going to a MacDonald's. We went t...
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Fortuitous Travel: Yes, Virginia, there is a mayor.
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Monday, January 08, 2007. Yes, Virginia, there is a mayor. Virginia Berkman, 82, is Chris' mother and my new housemate. She's great. Anytime the conversation lulls, just ask her about The Depression and settle in for some stories. On January 8th, Ron Dellums was to be inaugurated as the new Mayor of Oakland. Virginia decided to make an appearance and I volunteered to escort her. There was some interest on the part of the media.
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Fortuitous Travel: August 2006
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Thursday, August 10, 2006. On the road with Saryn. I introduce Saryn to the Beatles. How Saryn sees the world. Saturday, August 05, 2006. Work shall set you free. When in Krakow, you go to see Auschwitz. And there it is, just past a small sleepy town in the hills. As we drove up in our lumbering camper van, passing and being passed by much bigger tour vans, I kept thinking about horror movies where the old house is haunted. In this beautiful city?
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Fortuitous Travel: Calmly Surrounded
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Sunday, November 05, 2006. I know this is worse than fish in a barrel, but the sign below is now my favorite in all of Tokyo. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). I'm creating this travel blog forwards and backwards: posting recent trips up top and past adventures below. Be sure to check both ends for updates. I'll make a note when I've covered all of recorded history. (I bought my digital camera only this June.).
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Fortuitous Travel: Ninnaji Temple
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Where I've been. What it looked like. Occasional thoughts. Monday, October 16, 2006. Five minutes down the road from the Ryoanji. Temple lies the Ninnaji. Bigger, and with a generally different aesthetic. I didn't love the pagoda. Here, but Paul did which made me happy. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). All pictures expand for greater detail. A Trip to Tokyo Tower. Paul Simon goes to a love hotel . . .
