There's a lot to catch up on and I'm going to let the photos do most of the talking. Japan is a busy place and we've been up to it too.
Golden Week in Japan and it was the first time since we arrived that we all had a chance to relax over a period without the uncertainty that settling into a foreign land, earthquakes and nuclear meltdowns can elicit.
On Wednesday we traveled to Eihouji (永保寺) Two of the buildings were built nearly 700 years ago, long before the west had started to wake from its dark ages. It's like the deep echoing of a well to imagine the lives of people who lived and meditated here.
Here among the mountains, pines and bamboo the the fast a wild Tokigawa river flows and you can get the real flavor of ancient 日本。You wander down to the riverside, birds singing and river rushing but little can you escape the detritus of the modern world--plastic bottles and bags
washed up on the river banks.
We also biked down the Shonai Gawa 庄内川 to a small barbeque gathering. Down the Yada river to where the 2 rivers almost touch and then a beautiful bicycle and foot bridge. Sometime I can't believe I'm in large city
Japan really has so many natural and cultural beauties and even in the frantic pace they seem to be just a nice bike ride away. May they all not be swallowed up by the modern economic onslaught.
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