New Hankyu Kochi

... the peak as it was, I couldn't really imagine doing the whole thing...all in one day at least.<br><br>The rope-way itself was quite an experience, as it ascends nearly vertically, from the still almost completely green and lush lowland valleys to vibrant, nearly fake looking fall colours at the top. The red, yellow and orange leaves splattered over a canopy of bright green pines was wonderful, never have I seen fall colours like that. Of course our companions from ...

... concert at the castle, which I dragged myself out to see. Thankfully the rain had ceased and the castle was really lit up with lights and decorations. Caught some traditional kata music and there was a Shinto play at the top of the castle. It looked like an entire family participated, banging drums, dancing and bowing. There was a teenager who was spinning like a dervish with a tray of rice, which surprisingly he kept from flying off ...

... 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?

brianne made the mistake of NOT coming home and sitting right down to enter these details.... so now she barely recalls them :( ~but to make a long story short.... my friend shannon copp (a shiga JET) invited myself and two other shiga JETs (Nan, and Anna) to ...

... 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.

... beautiful green that I had ever seen. I blissed out and listened to the birds. How I'd missed being close to nature. After another quick rope way ride and the bloody steep hike, more spectacular views awaited me. Huge forests above the idyllic blue sea which was dotted with several smaller islands. Not a bad way to spend a Tuesday arvo. Got this lovely American mail order bride to take some pictures of me and then we struck up a conversation. She lives in Japan ...

... and drinking. Well, the drinking part I guess is similar to Thanksgiving.. maybe. Whatever, Brian, Glen, Ashleigh and I decided to make a trip out to Saijo to watch the Danjiri (portable shrines) be dragged thru the city. Now I'm sure you're thinking: "Wait, I thought that 'Omikoshi' meant 'portable shrine'" Well, my dear friend, you'd be correct! Danjiri and Omikoshi both mean 'portable shrine'. The only difference is ...

... womens' roles, gobsmacking me a bit with "House is like ship, and I am captain." & "Two captains very bad I think." This is a difficult issue in Japan, & I'm unwilling to debate when he is the host, and he's the one speaking my language, but I try to make a gentle example by saying, "You and I can look at history and say I wish I could live in Shakespeare time, or as samurai, or maybe Egyptians." "All women I know say they would not want to ...

Yes, that's right, there are 2 more reasons to hate me. Some people may say that they can't think of any reasons to hate me, but I've always felt that you're probably just being nice. There's always a reason to hate someone, it just depends on whether you're interested in ignoring that little piece. Anyways, we were in the city of Kochi (I guess it's pronounced "Koch," since the word "kochi" means something like "here"), and like every city in Japan, there is SOMETHING that it is famous ...