Big Adventures, Little World

Archive for 2008

I had no idea how much walking was going to be involved during the weekend of the Fuji Rock Festival, but it quickly became evident as we scaled the mountain looking for a nice place to pitch our tent. From the car park, each of us loaded up with all we could carry, we walked [...]

The trek to Fuji Rock Festival was an amazing experience, while at the same time being one of the most terrifying! After picking up supplies, we headed out into the mountains, where the roads wound in and out, left and right, up and down, and in some places were barely wide enough to fit 2 [...]

Today was Belinda’s last day of school so I was spending the day at home by myself. Deciding some food was in order I headed out to the local supermarket to get something to eat, and possibly visit a few other shops in the area. After the 5 minute walk though it was just too [...]

Here I was like a sucker paying to use the Internet at the hostel when I worked out this morning they had their own wireless network, with the security details posted on the wall. So all I had to do was put them into my phone and voila, Internet on my phone out the front [...]

Today began about 9.30am which seemed like a good time to get up after some much needed rest. I headed for the shower and got myself ready before sitting down for a while to study the subway maps and Belinda’s recommendations for the day. I headed out for the day about 10.30 to the subway [...]