Entries from October 2007

October 30, 2007

Jimmy Buffett could write a song about this:

Alone in Paradise would be the name. Im back in the Okinawa Guest House much earlier than i anticipated due to weather conditions, and also the woman who owned the camp site kicked me out! I have no idea as to why. I was quiet, clean, respectful and i was in my tent by 7 [...]

October 26, 2007

”typhoon” means hurricane in Japanese

WOW. Here i sit in a reggae-peace-&-love guest house in Okinawa, its so awesome! i woke up early so that i could take pictures of the place without anyone thinking i was crazy!…. and i dont think i explained, but a guest house is like a home that someone lets you stay in. It has [...]

October 25, 2007

smokey, with a chance of falling meatballs

Right now im in the Little Asia Guest House, for 13 bucks a night. Its right next to the train tracks, but seriously its a cool place! Free internet, for one…  Its just amazing to me that i can sleep in a dedent bed, in a clean place for under 20 dollars a night.
My ferry [...]

October 24, 2007

Reporting to you live from Miyazaki

Ladies and gents: The Japan Times.
It was some of the first English iv’e read since i’ve been in Japan and you better know i devoured it! Im buying an english book today for my trip to Okinawa though… anyway, it featured articles such as the coming-out of Dumbledore (something i called from the very start and no [...]

October 23, 2007

get out your Japan maps…

ive traveled a long way since i last posted, and unfortunately i have to write quickly right now but i`ll give you the scoop! The last time i wrote i was still in Osaka, on my way to Hiroshima… and ive already left Hiroshima and im now in Miyazaki!
Hiroshima was incredible. I reccomend to anyone [...]

October 19, 2007

I’ll throw ‘n apple at ya, Appalachian. Psshhhh…

My stay in Osaka was fabulous! Yesterday I spent the day in Kyoto with a boy named Tyler that i met. We went to an Indian restaurant and the cook put honey all over my naan bread and said, ‘honey for you because you are honey”, and then he asked me if i wanted to [...]

October 17, 2007

Thoughts on butterflies, earthquakes and warts.

I’ve had a lot of funny thoughts today, i’ll try and get you through my thought process… at this time i ask you to please open your mind to my eccentricities!
Firstly, I am a matcha lover. A bench-hunting matcha lover. I hunt for matcha frozen yogurt and then i hunt for a bench… it seems [...]

October 16, 2007

IM ALIVE!

This is going to be a big post! Oh boy. Buti have to type quickly because internet access in Osaka is expensive! A lot has happened to me in the past few days, so i hope youre ready for action and adventure, because this may turn into a novel…
It all started my last morning in [...]

October 13, 2007

Sweet potatoe pie

I am so thankful for the past of days, they have FULFILLED my dreams! Really though. Today was: amazing.
Woke up, had a wonderful Japanese breakfast and went to check out the waves but it was pretty windy so we decided to go on a hike in beautiful rural Chiba. So we drove and drove… the [...]

October 12, 2007

Japanese Dream

Something that has been challenging about having a travel blog is finding the appropriate words. Sometimes something happens, i have this amazing AMAZING day and its really hard to convey  it with words. But, that is the challenge of writing. So i will do my best to express the happenings of today!
I got on a [...]