Kochi Sunrise Hotel

... were ice cold, but once you got moving, you hardly noticed.<br><br>This turned out to be one of the most fun parts of the journey and a nice break for our now very sore legs - since climbing the chains, is much more an upper body workout then a lower one.<br><br>At the top you could climb climb just a little past the chains up to a rock peak with breathtaking views of the surrounding valleys. It was quite a hair-raising experience standing up there in the sky above ...

... a demon fought a group of sword wielding priests. Guess who won... Was so tired and cold after the festival, I totally dropped at the hostel, which was the nicest I've stayed at so far. Very clean, very open and the proprietor is a sake enthusiast. He had a tasting session, which I decided not to do, but it seemed like fun. Hopefully will sleep deeply today because I've got a ton of train travel tomorrow. Tomorrow: Uchiko and Matsuyama -mike

... mentre fuori diluviava. E prima di arrivare li sono stata in un onsen con vasca all'aperto vista fiume, e pioggia. Un tantino stile decadente e malinconico come panorama, ma bellissimo. Ora sono diretta a Muroto misaki, il capo a sud di Shikoku. volo a prendere il treno. Baci a tutti!

Primo traghetto che personalmente a me da una particolare libidine caricarci la moto e navigare per mare ogni tanto. Fiondo nell' isola di Shikoku , l' isola di un pellegrinaggio Zen da 1500 km attraverso 88 templi . Io la taglio a meta' naturalmente per montagne e dormo a Kochi altra citta' di mare e naruralmente si cena a base di sushi freschissimo . Sto viaggiando un po in fretta un mio amico a Shizuoka mi ha invitato ad andare ad Iwata a visitare la fabbrica della Yamaha .Potevo dire di no?

... in her car and road trip our way to shikoku and around tokushima-ken. we had a blast of a weekend in her tinsy tiny japanese size car (think geo metro) listening to great music and snacking on amazingly delicious homemade trail mix as we snaked our way ...

... labour and a number of American prisoner of war soldiers who were not known to be in the area.They burn a flame at the site and it is supposed to be extinguished when the last nuclear device is destroyed. I guess unfortunately it might as well be an eternal flame.From Hiroshima I bulleted my way to Okayama.

... of Mac and Yuri and the art of mime. We swapped numbers at the end of the night and she promised to come and visit me in Kobe. Went to bed that night ****** and now very trusting in the kindness of strangers. 5. PEACE MEMORIAL PARK On day two I headed straight to the Peace Memorial Park, which is home to the Peace Memorial Museum and many monuments dedicated to the lives lost in the world's first atomic bomb attack, dropped on Hiroshima in 1945. Was keen to ...

... one is on wheels, and the other is carried by a lot of people underneath it. Both are elaborately carved, heavy, and really big. They're also surrounded by drunken men dragging them thru the streets. We parked the car after we'd found where a bunch of them were sitting still. There were apparently quite a few starting points, especially since this small town had to hold approximately 80 of these shrines. We parked in ...

... Olympics "because you do not know what Americans will look like." "Maybe we are Asian people, maybe we are black or brown or white." "America is everybody, we come from all the world." We drank big Asahi cans & took group photos - perhaps a perfect moment. A little choking, I tried to thank them and tell them how much it meant, that this was first time I was in a Japanese home, and that people matter the most. Next day said sayonara to dear ...

... your bike" rule. Catching up with James - now complete with new wife Erina and baby boy Kaito - was an enjoyable and informative time. It was clear he hadn't shed his "Thrillsy" ways (most memorable for me from our Indonesia tour of duty in 2001), as he was still nursing a floating rib after an awesome snowboarding stack and as often as possible would head to the coast during a typhoon while the rest of the population headed the other way. His ...