Hitching to Hokkaido

After meeting Jess through an ad she put on couchsurfing.com, looking for a hitching partner, we set off from Tokyo, and headed North, with a couple of bigs bags, a tent, and some thumbs.

My Life

I`ve done some quite a lot of things in my life, but I don`t have a camera, so I only get to see friends photos, as a reminder of where I`ve been and of what I have done over the years, these are usually photos of me drunk at a party, and if I ever have kids, or suffer from long term memory loss, I would like to have some evidence of me doing something over than being frivolously gregarious with my life. So I think it`s about time to take my present and past and create a future of memories.

In the last two and a half years.

I`ve travelled around Holland as a poster sales man.

Lived in a big city in China, that almost nobody has ever heard of, even though the population is higher than that of most European cities. Teaching English in University to classes of up to 90 students (having no previous experience), and visited various doctors of Acupuncture and herbal medicine.

Learned Taijiquan with some very good teachers (and one not so good one).

Worked as an acupuncturist on a beach in Thailand, whilst living in the midst of a tantric yoga group.

Then moved to Kobe in Japan, and began training in acupuncture with a Toyo Hari disciple, before moving to Tokyo to teach English to kids, and learn Acupuncture and Zen. .........and there`s hardly any photos to prove it, so from now on, I want to record all the interesting and funny shit that I see and do.

Snacks

This section is dedicated to tabemono (food things), the kind of stuff that you wouldn`t find in Londis.

This is a bag of tentacle....mmmmm....tentacle.

Homo Sausage - Get one inside you!

Known elsewhere as `Brazen Cookies`

The land of mottenai eh?

My Journey to Work

As unriveting as the title suggests, but seeing as it takes up a sizeable chunk of my day, and I bore almost everyone who knows me with the details, I thought some images with a brief description might be worth adding to the blog.

This is Shinjuku Station at about 7:15 in the morning

My normal journey is something like this:


Leave home (Sasazuka) - 7:00


Change to Yamanote Line - 7:22

Get off at Nippori, with an aural assault which sounds like a deaf man playing an out of tune Wurlitzer, and slams you firmly back into Monday morning, just incase you forgot that you were on your way to work again.
Joban rapid to Kashiwa - 7:42

Arrive at Kashiwa and walk to school (Weds, Fri)  - 8:09

Get the train to Minami Kashiwa (Mon, Tues)

Get the train to Kita Kashiwa (Thurs), then the bus to Kashiwa number 2 Village.

.........Mission desu.


IF YOU ENJOYED THAT, `MY JOURNEY HOME` WILL BE APPEARING SOON!!!!!!!