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From the Eastern Edge: Surfing
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. In case you’ve never heard of CouchSurfing. I’ll give a quick summary. Be an overweight balding 40-year-old in his parents’ basement rather than the hip 24-year-old musician he says he is. You probably also think hitchhiking/picking up hitchhikers is a terrible idea. I tend to agree with you. As a young lone-traveling female, couchsurfing seems on the surface to be the opposite of something I should try.
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From the Eastern Edge: July 2012
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Monday, July 30, 2012. I think some of these notions still hold on because I was hoping to find treasures as I took apart my place. Mostly I just found dust, lots and lots of hidden dust. I did find some things I had squirreled away, forgotten, or thought lost. In writing my speech (writing, not even saying, just pre-work), the thought of including a reference to this object followed by the question, well, did we? This is a twenty, and ...
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From the Eastern Edge: September 2012
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Sunday, September 30, 2012. It's been almost two weeks since I got back to the U.S., and although I have more Japan stories to tell, I really wanted to tell about Miyagi next, because I went directly ( directly. So that should be the next entry, maybe. Kyle, circa 1999. I'll be back October 22nd for a break, then hopefully it's off to do the Eastern Loop, Roadtrip Phase II which I am. Putting together. But not very quickly. Caus...Oh, a...
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From the Eastern Edge: Osaka Temples: Soji-ji and Fujii-dera
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Wednesday, January 9, 2013. Osaka Temples: Soji-ji and Fujii-dera. First stop, Soji-ji, Temple 22 of the Pilgrimage and the one from which the walking trail still leads to Katsuo-ji (visited the day before). Soji-ji is the size of an unassuming city temple. There were some old ladies chatting in the shade of the garden near the pond, and I could feel them watching me. So I took a photo of a poster. Soji-ji is also famous for a dedicatio...
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From the Eastern Edge: (for babies and winning)
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Wednesday, December 12, 2012. For babies and winning). Temples 24 and 23, Nakayama-dera and Katsuo-ji. When we last left our pilgrim, she was driving away the good people of Kyoto with her odoriferous funk. Let us briefly consider the temples visited on this glorious, if funkfied, day. I hopped the highway bus to Takarazuka, then managed to get a bus headed right for the Nakayamadera temple area. Oh ancient tombs, I do love thee. I foun...
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From the Eastern Edge: July 2013
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. Just a note on my other blog, Recalculating, linked in the righthand panel: I've turned it private because I work at a public institution and I'd like to continue being my candid self in my blog. This means you have to sign in using your email address in order to read new entries. I know, it's lame, but go with it, because it'll help my sense of paranoia. I would love to have you continue reading. V Dub im Haus:.
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From the Eastern Edge: Down the Coast to Wakayama: Temples 2 and 3
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Monday, February 25, 2013. Down the Coast to Wakayama: Temples 2 and 3. The impressive front gate is made entirely of zelkova! The kawa in the name of the place, a nice place to stroll if it's not August and the sun is not blazing. I saw 16 Arhats at one of the temples inside Kyoto city, so I liked this set too. This tiger is famous. You can definitely read about it here. The most cluttered rock garden in Japan. Unique, definitely.
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From the Eastern Edge: January 2013
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Wednesday, January 30, 2013. In case you’ve never heard of CouchSurfing. I’ll give a quick summary. Be an overweight balding 40-year-old in his parents’ basement rather than the hip 24-year-old musician he says he is. You probably also think hitchhiking/picking up hitchhikers is a terrible idea. I tend to agree with you. As a young lone-traveling female, couchsurfing seems on the surface to be the opposite of something I should try.
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From the Eastern Edge: February 2013
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Monday, February 25, 2013. Down the Coast to Wakayama: Temples 2 and 3. The impressive front gate is made entirely of zelkova! The kawa in the name of the place, a nice place to stroll if it's not August and the sun is not blazing. I saw 16 Arhats at one of the temples inside Kyoto city, so I liked this set too. This tiger is famous. You can definitely read about it here. The most cluttered rock garden in Japan. Unique, definitely.
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From the Eastern Edge: April 2012
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From the Eastern Edge. I teach English in Japan. Among other things. Thursday, April 12, 2012. The Re-Visit II (temple nine). The second re-visit temple on the pilgrimage route. That my parents and I visited was number nine, Nan'en-do. My first visit to Nanen-do that I remember was in March of last year (I might have walked through or by it in December of 2010, but I don't have any photos if I did), almost immediately following the March 11th disaster in north Japan. The pagoda for Kofuku-ji, I believe.
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