It had happened suddenly. Matt texted me on a Tuesday morning before a weekend already full of plans, but it sounded like so much fun that I just had to agree -- that we had to go. So we booked a place in Akita-ken, rented a car, bought ichi-man yen's worth of alcohol at Don Quixote, but then it snowed. We bought chains for the tires. It kept ( Read more... )

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