with patience, a crush can be overcometh the golden week started that weekend. but no matter. our time in tokyo was finite. and saturday was to be the day for takaosan. still, we were completely taken aback by the size of the crowd. on route #1, the entire path […]
sakura, act 1, 2, 3 next on our to do list: search for or sakuras. from taenoyu, we moved on to hanamaki onsen in iwate. hanamaki onsen was more a hotel than a traditional ryokan. nevertheless, it was a good base from which to conduct our sakura sleuthing. […]
Cool friends, Hot baths, and Delicious sake There’s something special/sweet about meeting up with old friends in a foreign land. It’s like getting lost and then getting found. It kinda feels like we’ve gone home. We were en route to meet a group of ultra-running friends who had just […]
