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#10 Into the Many Flowered Fields
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The first official school week had just finished. My schools include an “active school” (a vocational school for those looking to get into a trade) and an art specialty school…
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#9 Pink Blossoms and Dark Skies
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It is Hanami season in Japan, which means that cherry blossoms are fluttering in all directions. That isn’t some idyllic, poetical notion stolen from a slice of life anime or…
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#8 The Next Station is…Shinjuku
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Stepping outside of the train doors, absolutely crammed into our little metal cars, I am floored by the sheer amount of absolute humanity bustling around me at Shinjuku Station. There…
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#6 O’Hell No
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It has been forty-eight hours since my journey began, and I am on one of the most miserable flights I have ever experienced. My legs are cramped and my knees…
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#5 Trust the Process
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I’m sitting in the hotel lobby of Hotel Nikko Narita after a long forty-eight hours spent navigating the debacle of international travel. Surviving language barriers, immigrations, customs, a Japanese phone…
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#4 Dates, Dives, and Diadems
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As my departure for Japan draws ever closer, I find myself fascinated with the mundane experiences of my home. Anyone who has moved a great deal of distance from their…
A Storied Saunter
A Literary and Travel Blog for Those Who Wander the Real and Imaginative Worlds
Charles “Cody” Childers
“They who never go to the holy land in their walks, as they pretend, are indeed mere idlers and vagabonds, but they who do go there are saunterers in the good sense” – Henry David Thoreau