I'm back in Osaka from my trip across the western part of Japan. The places I recall going to off the top of my head include Okayama, Yamaguchi, Shimonoseki, Kita-Kyushu, Fukuoka, Hakata, Nagasaki, Beppu, Matsuyama, Miyajima, and Hiroshima. I'll probably get around to putting up pictures and such later, and maybe some details on fun things that happened and other strange occurrences, but this is all contingent on whether or not I get motivated enough to do anything (and seeing how it's warming up outside and is starting to turn into that wonderful time of year when it's warm enough to walk around in a t-shirt but not so hot that you sweat and the breeze blows by just right over your skin around your head and flows between your fingers like fine silk it's unlikely that I'll want to do anything but sit outside under a tree and read a book or two or three or four or more).
The most immediate thoughts I recall having during the trip:
- Doing what's convenient versus doing what's right keeps coming up in my life. Especially in the little things. Always got to remember to do the right thing and not just what's convenient for me, because this world most certainly was not made just for me.
- It seems like the further away you get from the cities the nicer people become. After the kindnesses that have been shown to me on this trip, it's become more apparent than ever that I'm a terrible, horrible person. I've much to work on still.
- There's still so much beauty in the world and the people who live in it that it's hard to stay bitter for very long.
- I could be happy, deliriously happy, living out in the country tending a field with a mountain behind a house which I built (maybe with the help of a few friends, who's kindness would be returned of course). But it seems that the city is the life that is meant for me. Going on camping trips will have to do for me.
And now it's time for two weeks of down and dirtiness with hardware and coding. Hack away! Arrrr matey!
Posted by aoshi at March 10, 2004 02:48 PMlol.. cant' imagine you living in the country for too long
Posted by: Thy on March 10, 2004 04:13 PMi envy your weather. it's startin to turn desert here in riverside...
post pics! ;D
Posted by: meow on March 11, 2004 03:09 AM