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JAPAN | Friday, 23 Aug 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Views [15]
IT ISN’T OFTEN THAT THE FIRST PLACE YOU VISIT is a cemetery. And not a famous one like Arlington National Cemetery or Normandy, either. We had to work with a map and the lady at Nikko’s Tourist Information Center just to figure ... Read more >
JAPAN | Friday, 23 Aug 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Photo Gallery
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MEXICO | Friday, 23 Aug 2019 | By vee | Photo Gallery
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JAPAN | Thursday, 22 Aug 2019 | By vagabonds3 | Views [18]
THIS MAY COME AS A SHOCK, BUT WE HAVE EXCEEDED our photo limit . . . AGAIN! I haven’t been able to start a new journal in the Vagabonds series so we are switching to graynomadsusa , a site I established for our RVing days. ... Read more >
JAPAN | Thursday, 22 Aug 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Views [38]
WE HAD THE DEVIL OF A TIME GETTING FROM Takayama to Nikko, a route that required five different trains. We were in the second car of a two car train heading to Toyama with four other Westerners. Neither the young Portuguese couple not Spaniards ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 21 Aug 2019 | By vagabonds3 | Views [14]
THE HIDA FOLK VILLAGE IS A FAIR WALK FROM Takayama. But a short bus ride. The 1000 yen return fare also includes admission to Hida no Sato , a sprawling open-air museum. There are 30 or so thatched and shingled houses, shrines, workshops ... Read more >
JAPAN | Wednesday, 21 Aug 2019 | By graynomadsusa | Views [10]
WELL, HERE WE ARE AT OUR NEW HOME, journals.worldnomads.com/graynomadsusa If you have just discovered us, you can get our backstory (don't you just love that word?) at journals.worldnomads.com/vagabonds3 (2015-2019) , journals.worldnomads.... Read more >
JAPAN | Tuesday, 20 Aug 2019 | By vagabonds3 | Views [34]
WE JUST REALIZED WHY WE SKIPPED TAKAYAMA in 2014. The Takayama Matsuri, one of the three most popular festivals in Japan, was going on while we were in the area. I don’t recall trying but I am sure we couldn’t have gotten reservations ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 19 Aug 2019 | By vagabonds3 | Views [17]
I HAVE TO WONDER HOW WE MISSED HIDA TAKAYAMA last time. It is arguably one of the top destinations in Japan, even if there isn’t a festival going on. Takayama sits on the shoulders of the Japanese Alps and at 550 meters elevation, ... Read more >
JAPAN | Monday, 19 Aug 2019 | By vagabonds3 | Photo Gallery
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