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Climbing Mitake-san
We have a three-day holiday weekend coming up so I asked Lisa what she wanted to do. “No hiking,” she said. We have done an inordinate amount of hiking in Japan this past summer, not all of it pleasant. We got stuck in a thunderstorm in Okutama. We got stuck in the blazing heat in…
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Sweating, swimming and reconnecting in Shikinejima
For summer holiday we camped on the Tokyo island of Shikinejima.
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Traveling home: a culinary experience
I was in the Minneapolis airport and I had just spent 30 minutes looking for an Arby’s. The beef and cheddar combo was the last item on my mental checklist of food I wanted to eat before returning to Tokyo. From June 27-July 10 I had returned to the U.S., mostly to visit family in…
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A Tokyo whirlwind tour part II
The continuation of the travel log for Mom and Dad’s 2013 tour of Tokyo.
a Nick in Time 