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The Good, The Bad and the Tugly
... the “tuggers”. Young kids in uniforms beat drums to support their side. People would often change places from participant to spectator.
It seemed to me that the rope moved less than a meter back and forth. After a half an hour the match ended and the other side was declared the victor because they had ultimately moved the rope in their direction. Following the contest, everybody was cutting off pieces of the rope for good luck in the coming year.
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Finding Nemo
... to walk the bikes up many of the steeper stretches.
The fast descent revealed that our brakes were less than adequate to stop the bikes if need be. It’s a good thing that there are only a couple of dozen vehicles on the island. Graeme ended up in a drainage ditch after one descent and later on we reached a point in the road completely blocked with trees downed in the typhoon earlier this week.
A road crew was there cleaning up the ...
Sayonara, Japan!
... over to take some pictures at the nearby beach. On the way back to the car, I snapped a picture of the restaurant that Josh said was “off limits” – its main “dish” was a water pipe. We spent our last evening with Josh eating Nepalese food (similar to Indian). It was good food, and a good evening together. We dropped Josh off at the base about 8:30 with all of us trying to put on a ...
Shisa, Bingata, and School Life
... and signs. While the protest was not funny, some of their signs were the source of great mirth to anyone who speaks English. Instead of posting, “Give back our property.”, they posted signs stating, “Give back our portapotty.” Of course, someone obliged and had a portapotty delivered to them. Today, I had a very special birthday! We had ...
Okinawa
... admission includes tea and local cookies! All of these made for an awesome afternoon experience of the castle.
On the day before our start to China-Andrea was invited along to view one of the dragon boat races at a nearby beach. Despite a call for a typhoon the waters were dead calm and the ...
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