Posts Tagged ‘travel’
leaving Swan’s Island
On my last full day on Swan’s Island, a bald eagle — bouncing in flight against the crisp coastal winds — floated in the sky outside of my window while I drank my morning coffee. Later, I walked down to the mud flats and picked about 15 good-sized clams which were cooked up later as […]
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Tags: glitter, Kiyoko Ogawa, leaving, Maine, on the road, poetry, sparkle, Swan's Island, tanka, travel, winter light
This summer on my quasi-annual return trip to the United States I decided that I wanted to travel by train, rather than flying. This decision was partially to do with the fact that flying is one of the most carbon-unfriendly activities around, but equally due to the fact that I’ve come to despise air travel […]
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Tags: Amtrak, California, Cargill salt ponds, coast, Coast Starlight, CPR, defibrillation, Elkhorn Slough, EMT, farming, farmworkers, fruit picking, grapes, hidden landscapes, industry, insterstate highway system, landscape, Lompoc penitentiary, missile tests, ocean, salt ponds, train travel, trains, travel, U.S. military, view, wildlife preserves, wine, wine tasting
Typhoon return
With completely impeccable timing I managed to fly into Narita after a month-long sojourn back in the States just in time to meet up with a largish typhoon that was sweeping the area. The typhoon hadn’t hit ground when the plane landed, so there were no issues there, but I still had to get from […]
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Tags: bad timing, bullet train, high winds, rain storm, return to Japan, Shinkansen, stranded, taxi, taxi queue, train delay, travel, typhoon, 新幹線
