Notes from the 'Nog

    Getting a jump start on the heat.  People on the way to work, popping into Mishima Taisha.  I wander the cool of the grounds, passing a ...

    Has it really been six years since I left off this walk in Hakone?  The weather is a far cry from what it had been on that  December da...

    ...Marrakesh and Jemaa el-Fnaa:  cobras, monkeys, drums, fruit stands with plastic food, minaret scaffolding with three gargoyles,  Tibe...

  I've mentioned before how my friend Daniel and I had missed a great deal of the Hongudō during our walk in 2019 , due to most signage ...

  I've forgone breakfast since I want to catch the first train of the day.  I'm backtracking a few days to recross Hajikami-tōge, ta...

  I linger over breakfast, not enthused about my upcoming day of five passes.  Luckily I've already down the Hōbō-toge , so I wait on t...

  On the Ise-ji, Yakiyama terrifies most.  The height and length of the pass are well out of scale from that of anything else on the entire ...