Category: Listlessly Wandering

  • KUROBE – TAKE TWO

    OCTOBER, 2010 “I’ve left my i-phone in the toilet,” he said. It was okay.  We were still at the hut. Ten days after my aborted foray deep into the Kurobe Gorge I was back at Asohara Onsen chomping at the bit for the trek up through the Shimo-no-rokka.  My old hiking buddy Patrick had flown…

  • THE HORIZON TRAIL (PART 2)

    SEPTEMBER, 2010 I didn’t drown.  I didn’t succumb to claustrophobia or cave ins. There weren’t any bats. But at the other end of the long tunnel I sucked in the fresh mountain air like I’d just emerged from a week lost in the catacombs. More thrills followed in a leery section of trail cut out…

  • THE HORIZON TRAIL (PART 1)

    SEPTEMBER, 2010 I’m crap at poker and chess. I fall for the sucker punch every time. It was the same story leading up to Silver Week 2010.  With a clutch of days off just around the corner, the Weather Man and I were playing chicken.  Who would blink first? Right at the last minute, amidst…