It’s time to leave a world of beaches for travel with a bit of fiber in it. This weekend, in Naples, Florida, I got reunited with my hiking boots and walking shoes and mailed the lesser stuff back home. I’m on my way to Kirishima, southern Japan. I’ll connect to a flight in Houston Tuesday…… Continue reading From Beaches to Volcanoes
Category: East Asia
USA, Aruba, Japan 2015
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Dreaming of Kyushu
This winter I’ll be back in Kyushu, the southernmost of Japan’s four main islands. I will have visited Kyushu three years in a row: 2013, 2014, and 2015. I go back for the gentle subtropical climate while Minnesota’s long winter refuses to budge. Kyushu is a manageable size, about one-sixth the area of Minnesota or…… Continue reading Dreaming of Kyushu
Dreaming of Kyushu
Posted Dreaming of Kyushu, a warm place,
Kyushu Hikes Accessible via Transit
Started building an interactive map of hikes in Kyushu (Japan) accessed by public transport.
Gas
It was breakfast at the Granvia Okayama Hotel. The tour group at the next table murmured in agreement as the colonel railed against typographical errors in the itinerary. I pegged him as “the colonel,” now a paper-pusher, close to retirement. It was impossible to tune him out as he recalled his first encounter with the…… Continue reading Gas
Kyoto 2005
Kyoto, 2005. I’ve posted about temple plumbing here and here.
Nagasaki/Saint Paul
Nagasaki aesthetics, Como Park, St. Paul, MN. Minneapolis and St. Paul are twins; Nagasaki and St. Paul are sisters. In March 2014, I got to meet St. Paul’s sister. I decided not to stay at the Hotel Saint Paul Nagasaki, its name designed to attract my compatriots. I had not come all this way to…… Continue reading Nagasaki/Saint Paul
Nagasaki/St. Paul
Cycled to Japanese Garden, Como Park, St. Paul, then posted about St. Paul’s sister city.
Glass Houses and Buried Museums
The Farnsworth House A Glass House in Illinois Completed in 1951, the Farnsworth House, near Plano, Illinois, is widely regarded as one of the major architectural achievements of the twentieth century. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe took his belief that “less is more” almost to the limit by designing a steel-framed, glass-walled box. The box floats…… Continue reading Glass Houses and Buried Museums