Tag Archives: Tokyo
Climbing Mount Fuji
My love affair with Mount Fuji began one crisp November morning in 1995 as I pedaled to work from my home in the Tokyo suburb of Fujiki-Kinome. When I reached the middle of a rickety old bridge I’d been crossing … Continue reading
Posted in Life, Life abroad, Travel
Tagged Fujiki-Kinome, Fujimino, Kawagoe River, Mt Fuji, Otsukare sama deshita, oxygen deprevation, Sartre, Shinjuku, Temple University, Tokyo
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Riding the Floor
About a week after we moved to Japan, my daughter, Bonnie, and I experienced our first earthquake. As we sat on the floor, Japanese style, our legs tucked under the kotatsu for warmth, the apartment began to sway. “Look at … Continue reading
Posted in Costa Rica, Current events, Life, Life abroad, Retirement abroad
Tagged Costa Rica, Earthquakes, Epicenter, Japan, Kotatsu, Puriscal, Richter scale, Seismic activity, The Pacific Ring of Fire, Tokyo
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