Written As Letters

Today was weird. i woke up early to go To Nikko, but the weather sucked. still decided to go, but it took a very long time to get there….2 trains, and a 45 minute wait between meant i didnt get in till about 11:00 then caught a bus to the first sight, only to find […]

I am sitting in the same cubicle in the same internt cafe as the first email I sent from Tokyo, and incidentally, the same as last ngiht too. its the first thats more interesting though. i figured out why tonight. it is the only non-smoking booth in the place…of course the whole place is one […]

i calculated the time i have spent on trains recently and realized that between saturday and sunday i spent almost 30 hours on trains. more if you count time spent in stations. the train ride from Sapporo to Tokyo was nice for the most part though. there was again, beautiful scenery, and i listened to […]

blueberry kitkats are not great and i now have many of them. they taste artificial. chestnut i think are still my favorite. yesterday evening I got on the night train for Kushiro, arriving at 6 Am. that was a weird ride, very hard to sleep during, and once the sun was up, the scenery was […]