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So now I'm going to Japan. For a year.
Quemaqua:
Album 16 - Taimatsu Matsuri - Went to a crazy festival where they set a lot of stuff on fire and drag it around the town while everyone drinks and inhales too much smoke. A friend and I participated informally, as did a fair number of random people. It was as fun as it sounds, plus there were fireworks!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JJwy8Mi2HhnBn4X96
Album 17 - Kamikouchi - Beautiful highlands valley with lots of trees and pretty things. Spent a long day here with a couple friends and took about a billion pictures. Pictures of the fall leaves I think turned out especially nice. Also there's a video with monkeys.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/aQT7SwQVi1egPUt27
Cobra951:
16 looks like a pyro-apocalypse. ;D Beautiful nature shots in 17. Is the weather often that pretty? I'm sick of the crappy weather around here lately.
You look like you're enjoying yourself quite a bit. I think I'll live vicariously through your images for a while.
Quemaqua:
Please do! I enjoy sharing them.
Yeah, the weather here has been wonderful. Fall is a very nice time of year. The leaves change, the temperature and humidity drop, it actually gets cold, but on sunny days the sun is so powerful here that even though the overall temperature isn't that high, you still feel warm. Today was another good example. I have some more pictures coming at some point soonish, from another trip this weekend, and I even took some on a walk around town today. Just need to sort through everything.
Japan, like any place, has plenty of problems, but it's a really lovely place. I'm going to be sad to leave. There's so much that I love about being here.
I realize also I've skipped a bunch of stuff, so here's a few more for the interim:
Album 08 - Yohashira Shrine Festival - Another festival. This one is a bit more straightforward, just some music and wandering around eating from random food stalls and such. There's some pretty nice video of fireworks in this one too!
https://photos.app.goo.gl/WFgm5QmUMTfqTERN9
Album 09 - My apartment - Just some random shots from my apartment. I threw stuff in here if I shot it in here, so it's all pretty random. But you can get a sense of how small it is.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/JWGCZwgqGaWZK8RCA
Album 10 - Matsumoto - This is a big one. Basically just a bunch of stuff from the town I'm living in. It's kind of another assortment of god knows what, but there's some nice ones in here, I think. This is a really nice town. It's very ... I don't know. Urban in some ways, but still out in the countryside. Big, but not really that big. Small enough to be pretty walkable, but that can end up being a very long walk, depending where you're going. Surrounded by mountains. Going to try to update this with a few things from my walk today too, which will probably get on there before anyone sees it.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/13gFWngR5xAtJG8j9
Album 12 - Matsumoto Castle - This is one to skim, as a lot of the photos are of displayed stuff inside the castle, which is something of a museum. Only interesting if you love Japanese culture, are a history buff, can read Japanese, or some combination of those. There are some nice shots of the city from the castle top, though, and the castle at night is gorgeous.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wU26ZbXUrjH2MTuk8
Album 13 - Soba festival - More festival stuff. Food and whatever.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/nKsE5Gch599DAB7M6
There are others, but smaller albums from trips out here and there to eat or shop, with friends, etc. I'll avoid posting them to prevent overloading, unless somebody asks to see them.
Also, the last thing is this writeup I did on my blog, which in turn links to a blog post I did for a scholarship website, ironically the one scholarship which has yet to come through for me. But that may or may not be of interest to anyone, so I'll toss it on here too: https://bookruptcy.com/2018/10/14/japan-adventure-part-4-sunrise-in-the-land-of-the-rising-sun/
Quemaqua:
Wrote another blog: https://gilmanprogram.wordpress.com/2018/12/17/one-day-one-step/
Album 18 - Friends and ramen - nuff said.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5JMVLkztiwPg3LRs7
Album 19 - Another festival - Tons of video in this one. My favorites are the jazz band. The one where the dude loses his sheet music is fantastic.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/wtni7JY99CXwVXd69
Album 20 - Bus hike - Went some places I'm feeling too lazy to explain, but they included a temple and an old Edo-era town that they turned into a tourist trap. It was fun but a little too rushed, didn't get to explore the town much.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ecMrTiUXQgSXXGfd9
Album 21 - Massive fireworks in Nagano - They have a big fireworks festival there which is just incredible. I've never seen anything like it, doubt I ever will again. Mostly video here, but a lot of it is worth watching. The longer clips of the 2+ minute displays are great. It was about an hour of actual fireworks time, different groups putting on different displays. And we were close. The only downside is it was FREEZING. As soon as we stood up to leave I realized how cold I was and felt like I was going to die. haha
https://photos.app.goo.gl/ugKb11R21g6a2vfF7
Album 22 - Daio Wasabi Farm - Kind of is what it says on the tin, but it was quite pretty and there were some interesting cultural additions like statues and shrines on the property. Was a fun and interesting trip.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/1fowM5JiZCsPMfy58
Album 10 redux - Matsumoto - I always add stuff to this one, so there's always kinda more in it. Now included.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/13gFWngR5xAtJG8j9
Pugnate:
Did you encounter any tentacle penis monsters?
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