Explored places Matsuo Basho visited 1689 traveling his “Narrow Road to the Deep North.” It’s fun figuring this out.
Category: Travel
Destination Kanazawa
Saturday morning: a bullet train, then an express train to Kanazawa.
Up Next: Nagasaki
Today, Monday: Kagoshima to my next base, Nagasaki. I’ll take a bullet train, then an express train.
Jetfoil to Kagoshima
Early evening jetfoil back to Kagoshima after another good day hiking in the mountains of the island of Yakushima.
Jetfoil to Yakushima
Thursday 11:15 a.m. Waiting to board jetfoil that will take me from Kagoshima to the little island of Yakushima.
Kagoshima Arrival
9:40 p.m. Arrived Kagoshima off bullet train.
HNL Nature Walk
HNL 10:30 a.m. Great airport for walking. Walls open to the elements, mountain views, gardens to explore.
KOA Airport
7:00 a.m. KOA (Kona, Hawaii Big Island)
Traveling to a Different Mental Place
This week I move from an island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean to an island on the edge of the East China Sea: from Hawaii Big Island to the little island of Yakushima, Southern Japan (195 square miles, population 13,178).
Traveling to a Different Mental Place
Wrote about traveling to a different mental place.