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Wrote about my second day of looking for traces of Matsuo Basho’s 1689 journey.

Explored places Matsuo Basho visited 1689 traveling his “Narrow Road to the Deep North.” It’s fun figuring this out.

Saturday morning: a bullet train, then an express train to Kanazawa.

Walked across Kazurabashi vine bridge in vertiginous Iya Valley in the interior of the island of Shikoku.

Took 3 progressively smaller trains to the end of the line in southeast Shikoku to see what was there. I then hiked.

Wednesday: hiked to temples 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 of the Shikoku 88 pilgrimage temples. More pictures.

Tuesday night I’m in Tokushima. Tomorrow I’ll walk the first few temples of the Shikoku 88 (temples) pilgrimage.

Hey C, D: a post card of a giant pumpkin for you from an art island called Naoshima. Can you draw an art island?

Art hike, day 2, including extraordinary underground Chichu Museum: removing boundaries between art and architecture.

I write about a day to be forgotten. Yikes.

Inland Sea from my room at Benesse House Art Museum on Naoshima Island. Walked miles viewing art inside and outside.

Monday plan: Naoshima “art island” Inspired by a post at tofugu.com about staying in an “art site” with hotel rooms.

Out-of-Comfort-Zone Weekend, Part 2 : haircut, explained with gesticulations. Feared I’d get a Kim Jong-un bouffant.

Wrote about last night’s stay in a capsule hotel.

Home tonight. I’m top, first in row. Currently in yucata, street clothes in wash. Everybody minds their own business.

Saturday, currently on bullet train to Okayama. This weekend’s theme: outside of my comfort zone. Tonight, it’s a capsule hotel for $26.