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Apr 1, 11 •
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I left Saboten Smile in the morning to go back to Hana-chan family’s home in Ginowan. I have diving lessons scheduled for the next few days. The weather forecast said it was going to rain. Oh, I hope I can go as far as possible before it starts raining....
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Apr 1, 11 •
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I cycled from Hana-chan family’s home in Ginowan to Nago to see the northern parts of Okinawa. I am to come back to her house so I can get a diving license. Hana-chan and her husband are diving instructors, and I am finally going to take lessons to get...
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Mar 31, 11 •
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After 25 hours of a rather rough ferry boat ride, I arrived in the evening in the port of Naha. Naha is the capital of Okinawa prefecture. A friend of my friend came to get me with her 8 months old baby (crying), and we headed to have dinner at an Okinawan...
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Mar 31, 11 •
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After a good night sleep that I hadn’t had for a while, it was time to pack in the morning in the stranger’s home in Tsuchikawa, Kagoshima. It was so nice to have a toaster there in the morning. I’ve come to appreciate having something that...
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Mar 25, 11 •
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After the onsen and dinner was a hut in a park for the evening. Wow, can you believe this monument was just sitting there empty in a beautiful park with flowers and other hand-made monuments? My laundry got even more wet by the morning since it rained...
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Mar 23, 11 •
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After feeling and looking a worm, it took me a while to get out of the sleeping bag. I couldn’t sleep very well as I was cold, but the morning was beautiful, and the sun was shining. I put my palms together and said thank you to the small shrine in...
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Mar 23, 11 •
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Soon after we left Kumamoto City in the morning, we came across 14 brand new shinkansen (bullet trains) lined up, and lots of media people. It was the press day, the one and only day for these brand new Kyushu shinkansen to be shown together, before their...
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Mar 23, 11 •
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So the day came. After having headaches, stomachaches and sleepless nights in anxiety for the unknown world of my cycling tour, I had to leave. My bike wasn’t done until the day before, which made me wake up with stomach pain. I didn’t know if I...
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Mar 20, 11 •
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Watch this recap of my photos and videos from the first 5 days in Kyushu! Lots of foooood!!!...
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Mar 19, 11 •
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On March 11, 2011, on the day after I started my Japan cycle tour, magnitude-8.9 earthquake hit off the shore of Japan, unleashing a 23-foot (seven-meter) tsunami and leaving enormous destruction in its wake. That area, that route, were exactly where I was...
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