Countdown to California
6 weeks and change. On the agenda: Sumo tournament Stop by Kyoto Buy a bow and new set of arrows Lots of work … Not too ambitious at all. Maybe because I’ve been here almost a year now. Tokyo seems more comfortable than shiny, and while I haven’t done it all, the stuff that’s left […]
Archery ï¼waiting
Last Sunday was the eighteenth annual Tokyo area one near-far target shooting competition.  You get eight arrows at each at a 60m(far) and 28m(near) target. Having never shot further than 28m before, my fellow archers were a little concerned for my score (read: their safety).  They kept saying stuff like “Oh, you need to raise the […]
Chichibu and Mt. Kumotori
Two friends and I have been trying to go on a hike since April. Derailed multiple times by sniffles and bad weather, we finally dragged ourselves out last weekend to enjoy fog, trees, and weird (non-human eating) bugs. Moths and beetles and cicadas and bees, and only one mosquito! Well, only one that I saw, […]