From left, Shoko, Todd, Lewis. Shoko is a college student and Lewis is serving the country (U.S.) on a Japan's US airforce base. Again, we accidentally ran into a hanabi (fireworks display festival) in northern Gunma-ken.
The crowd at the hanabi. Some locals in yukata (a summer kimono).
At a rest stop this is what we found, some ice and snow to cool the kids off.
Some scenery we snapped while driving. We seem to have done a lot of those aimlessly but they end up being some of my favorites.
Our dash, it's got a killer GPS satellite navigation system. We haven't got lost with it even once, oh well, maybe twice.
It does literally everything under the sun. It tells you where to turn, three or four times; it suggests which road to take; it counts distance; it predicts arriving time; it tells you where there is a traffic jam; it shows maps as detailed as you can see outside the car with your own eyes, or zoomed out as far as the outline of the entire country; it dices; it slices... the driver's duty is gradually reduced to that of a monkey at the wheel.
Here is what happens when we, out of character, tried to plan to go somewhere. It took us literally hours to get to the town, one and a half to get up the mountain, another one hour to hike the hill, which we cheated by paying a toll to get to the top where we were so thrilled to see a crater lake. (
Mount Zao in Yamagata-ken)
And this, this is the best shot we took. Fog so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.
Just for contrary, this is what it supposedly looks like. (not our pic)
From left, Shoko, Todd, Lewis. Shoko is a college student and Lewis is serving the country (U.S.) on a Japan's US airforce base. Again, we accidentally ran into a hanabi (fireworks display festival) in northern Gunma-ken.
The crowd at the hanabi. Some locals in yukata (a summer kimono).
At a rest stop this is what we found, some ice and snow to cool the kids off.
Some scenery we snapped while driving. We seem to have done a lot of those aimlessly but they end up being some of my favorites.
Our dash, it's got a killer GPS satellite navigation system. We haven't got lost with it even once, oh well, maybe twice.
It does literally everything under the sun. It tells you where to turn, three or four times; it suggests which road to take; it counts distance; it predicts arriving time; it tells you where there is a traffic jam; it shows maps as detailed as you can see outside the car with your own eyes, or zoomed out as far as the outline of the entire country; it dices; it slices... the driver's duty is gradually reduced to that of a monkey at the wheel.
Here is what happens when we, out of character, tried to plan to go somewhere. It took us literally hours to get to the town, one and a half to get up the mountain, another one hour to hike the hill, which we cheated by paying a toll to get to the top where we were so thrilled to see a crater lake. (Mount Zao in Yamagata-ken)
And this, this is the best shot we took. Fog so thick you can cut it with a chainsaw.
Just for contrary, this is what it supposedly looks like. (not our pic)
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