Slingshot
[35°41′27″N, 139°42′00″E] An acquaintance of mine juggles several jobs and spends most of the year traveling.
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At the Departure Gate
[1°21′37″N, 103°59′38″E] The peak season must have passed. The departure gate was quiet in that particular way airports get ...
Across the Pond
[51°09′15″N, 0°11′09″W] Across the pond. It's the phrase North Americans and Europeans use for the Atlantic ...
The Weight of the Body, the Lightness of Information
[40°45′10″N, 73°58′36″W] All you needed for the job was your own will, your own body, and a handful of quarters and tokens.
Before the Words
[40°24′29″N, 3°41′38″W] I was walking through Madrid when a light beige building stopped me.
Code as Narrative
[35°39′39″N, 139°43′50″E] After a hiatus of several years, I recently returned to coding,
My Own Universe
[35°32′43″N, 139°46′08″E] “It really comes down to whether you find it bothersome,” the tinnitus specialist says,
Downpour in Phnom Penh
[11°33′50″N, 104°55′54″E] The day after arriving in Phnom Penh, my plans — the whole reason for the trip — fell through.
A System of Trust and Transcendence
[42°47′16″N, 141°40′54″E] My scheduled flight was canceled due to heavy snow.
Monday Morning
[56°58′02″N, 24°06′20″E] The British magazine The Economist publishes an annual “Big Mac Index.”
Northbound, Southbound, and the Direction of Meaning
[39°41′46″N, 140°59′05″E] A couple I know lives in northern Tohoku, and every few years, I drop in on them.
The Strait in the West, or Ambiguity
[35°47′23″N, 5°48′23″W] The moment the ferry crossing the western end of the Mediterranean pulled away from the wharf on Spain’s southern edge,
Journey to the Oysters
[43°01′46″N, 144°51′19″E] As the eastbound Doto Expressway approached the Minami Furano area, the snowfall intensified.
Visitors to Bangkok
[13°43′48″N, 100°31′51″E] Whenever people hear about the nightlife districts scattered across the world,
The Price of a Secret Hot Spring
[43°30′47″N, 143°00′59″E] Driving along a narrow mountain road in northern Hokkaido, I spotted a piece of wood half-hidden in the bamboo grass along the shoulder, scrawled with “ROTEN →.
Pescado in San Salvador
[13°40′58″N, 89°15′22″W] Back then, I was drifting through Central America without internet or a phone.
Toyotomi x Words of Travel
[45°06′17″N, 141°46′33″E] Last summer, I returned to Toyotomi in northern Hokkaido after decades away.
Reunion in San Jose
[37°20′15″N, 121°52′46″W] The driver in the taxi I’d hailed in San Jose was an Asian man, probably in his early forties.
A Stifling Library
[43°03′49″N, 141°20′32″E] I sometimes visit a university library. Not as a student, alumnus, or faculty member, but as a neighborhood resident granted access through a community program.
Egg and Lettuce Fried Rice, Hot and Sour Soup
[33°59′03″S, 18°26′52″E] Wherever I’ve traveled in the world, Chinese food has been my salvation.
Asahikawa Station, South Exit
[43°45′45″N, 142°21′27″E] I had a few hours to kill between trains at JR Asahikawa Station.
Escape
[35°51′33″N, 139°39′27″E] Toward the end of the twentieth century, I was living in a Tokyo apartment and commuting once a week to Urawa in Saitama Prefecture to ...
Canoe
[44°28′49″N, 142°20′12″E] It’s been years since I paddled for the first time through the wetlands of eastern Hokkaido,
My Physics Teacher
[35°41′11″N, 139°43′46″E] Physics was my worst subject, but I liked the teacher.
The Third Winter
[43°03′40″N, 141°21′20″E] In October, morning temperatures dropped into the single digits.
Duckweed
[35°40′53″N, 139°46′03″E] Apparently, most people don’t move all that often in their lifetimes.