How I’ve come to celebrate and enjoy birthdays as a vagabond and digital nomad.
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Japan’s Lost Pilgrimage: Kunisaki in 55 Photos
A weekend trip to the Rokugo Manzan, 33 Buddhist temples around Mount Futago in Oita Prefecture, Japan.
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The Dewa Sanzan: Afterword
Thoughts after hiking the 3 Holy Mountains of Yamagata in a single day.
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The Dewa Sanzan: Foreword to the 3 Holy Mountains of Yamagata
A brief introduction my journey to one of Shugendo’s holiest sites in Japan.
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Dewa Sanzan 2/3: Gassan
This is part of a 5-part series on the Dewa Sanzan which includes diary entries and travel information. The bus ride winds down the hill from Haguro-san and picks up visitors staying at a mountain lodge. From there, it traverses wild grassland sprinkled with haphazard shrubs before climbing Gassan. Gassan, just shy of 2000 metres, is […]
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Dewa Sanzan 1/3: Haguro-san
This is part of a 5-part series on the Dewa Sanzan which includes 3 diary entries and travel information. August 7, 2015. It’s been a week since I finished the Ohenro, but I’m already back. I rise when the sky is still ashen, at 5am. Here, in the northern prefecture of Yamagata, the morning air is […]
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Henro Day 40: July 30
Tokushima Otsuru Ryokan (徳島市大鶴旅館) → Ono Noen 小野農園 Temples: 10 Kirihata-ji (切幡寺) Weather: Sunny Travel Method: Cycling Distance: 24km Everything disappears quickly, food included. It takes 30 minutes to eat and pack up the pile of things that I’d left at Otsuru Ryokan two days ago. The ‘pile’ had overwhelmed me last night when I returned fits in […]
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