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It’s already been a couple weeks, but at the end of September my friend Bowen showed up in Japan and we took a couple trips around before he headed back home.

One of the trips we took was a whirlwind tour of Koyasan, Nara, and Kyoto. I made a post about Koyasan last year, and it ( Read more... )

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It is finally getting into full-on summer here! It is toasty and sticky and it feels nearly impossible to get anything done. Last year we had a remarkably mild summer, so it feels like it is trying to make up for last year this year. At least my air conditioning works a lot better ( Read more... )

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I took a trip to the US a couple weeks ago, and met up with Zach and my parents for a trip along US 1 from about Paso Robles to San Francisco. We stopped off in Big Sur, Carmel, and Monterey, and also took a trip up to Muir Woods. I had a good time, although I was still suffering ( Read more... )

I decided to crosspost my megatiny posts to LJ, so if you're subscribed to the RSS feed, it may well be worth it to unsubscribe so you don't get things twice. The RSS version is weird, because it allows comments, but the posts tend to disappear after a while, as to the comments, which I am not a fan of.

Enjoy.

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This past weekend I went to visit Nagasaki for the lantern festival. The weather was really nice and I had a good time overall, but the lantern festival was extremely crowded, and so I didn’t get to see as much as I would have liked. I could have tried to squish in more, but I am ( Read more... )

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Zach and I went to Kyoto! We had a good time, although the weather could have been better and there were some camera battery mishaps. We ate some tasty miso ramen, and I finally figured out why my sister wanted Subway so much when I went to Kyoto with her. Sandwiches without ( Read more... )

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Zach showed up on Friday night, so on Saturday morning we went down to Dazaifu, which he had never been to. Winter is not the nicest season, sadly, but it was still a good way to pass the first jetlaggy day. We wandered over to the national museum, but Zach was getting a little ( Read more... )

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I got to fly a kite on Sunday! The weather was sunny and relatively nice, so I decided to head outside for a little while and get some new books and things. While I was wandering around, I ran into a kite-flying event. Little kids got to make their own kites, but the adults had ( Read more... )

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Last weekend I went to Osaka, Kyoto, and a mountaintop temple town called Koya-san.


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