HeyJaredWalking Across Japan
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Into the Caldera (opens the original)
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The rain was falling potsu-potsu as I walked quickly to the train station. But I didn’t mind, the rain would add to the Jurassic Park feel of Aso’s grassland. The same feeling I’d had more than a year ago when I had walked to Aso and caught the train home from Akamizu. By the time I reached Akamizu though, the rain had stopped, and only one more brief potsu-potsu swish over the edge of the caldera occurred all day. A hiking map provided me with a route up the edge of the caldera from Akamizu, an
The Buried River (opens the original)
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I’m trapped in Kumamoto City at the moment. The routes south to Tsunagi — shinkansen, expressway, local train all disconnected somewhere by the recent earthquake. I thought about continuing north across the last baking floodplain before Fukuoka City. But the heat put me off — better left for autumn. I thought about continuing around Aso. But I wanted to go over Aso, across the grasslands and volcanic cones, not round it — and I needed a few days on the trot for that.So, I explored my neighbourho
Golden Apple Snails and Earthquakes (opens the original)
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Back on the bike. But we’re making progress. The first time, I was making ninety percent of the effort, and my daughter ten percent, leaving me with a drippy brow that scattered droplets over the hot tarmac every time I turned my head, and a river of sweat down the middle of my chest. This last time, I’m the one making ten percent of the effort, my daughter now doing most of the work to balance the bike and to propel it forwards, me just balancing it on the downward slopes so she can get her fee
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