They are out of order and two are sideways, but I can't figure out how to change that so... sorry.
The hike was supposed to be easy, but after about 3 miles of straight up stairs (I'm not kidding). And the fact that I was behind because I read the kanji wrong and got off on the wrong bus stop earlier that day. Sadly I say that I turned back... So these are the pictures I took before I brought shame upon myself and my whole family, or at least thats how a Japanese person would put it.
This was the farthest I got. It was really nasty muggy since it had rained the day before. And I'm not kidding when I say it was probably 90 degrees at the time of this picture. I felt like I had jumped into a pool I was so sweaty. Like my camera which was in my backpack in another case was wet.
This pretty sweet bridge at the start of the hike.
This was one of those hikes were I take a bus by myself out to the middle of nowhere. And I find sweet stuff like this, but I also get looks from 80 year old Japanese women equivalent of if I was an alien. I think more than anything they are amazed that a gaijin can actually figure out how to get here.
I don't know if you can tell but there are 4 or 5 little waterfalls coming out of this rock. There was a cup by the main part which made me believe it was safe to drink. But I didn't risk it.
So a few things I've done in the past couple of weeks.
I've been playing a lot of basketball. Japanese basketball teams are like the phoenix suns, if the suns were 12 Steve Nashes. Seriously we had 4 guys over 6 feet tall and they had 4 guys under 5'6, and they still beat us.
I've been hanging out in Osaka a lot lately, which is fun, except the trains stop running at 12:00pm and don't start again until 5:00 am. Its not that bad since everyone is in the same boat so we either go to a ramen shop or a karaoke bar to kill the 3:30-5 lull. But last week I feel asleep on the first train and woke up 2 towns over. So I didn't get home till like 7.
Lastly I leave you with this video. Its from a south park episode. Don't worry there is nothing offensive in it. All I'm going to say is this explains a lot of things in my life...
2 comments:
OH MY GOSH. you are right- the video is your crowning achievement.
Please dont tell me your plans now are to marry a Japanese girl who doesnt carry the ginger gene :)
haha. what happened to starting your red-haired race?
Funny,
I was talking to this red-head I work with named Jarrod, and he was telling me that because its a recessive gene, if red-heads don't start breeding, then they will all die off some day. I didn't know if I should believe him or not, but it sounds like the hopes of the Ginger race are in your hands. And Keith's. I mean Heath's.
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