June 11, 2010
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Slugging old men is…

I’m getting really backlogged so I’m going to have to compress the next few days into one post.  Things have been quite busy but not much has been happening.  Hitchhiking is quite time consuming and a whole day can disappear while I am getting from one place to another.

So we left off in Morioka with me

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June 11, 2010
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A rare ride

Hachinohe was a great city for the (very) short time I was there but something about the atmosphere and the way people looked at me just didn’t feel right.  Maybe it was just that I wasn’t used to cities or maybe it was the nearby military base combined with my buzz cut, I don’t know, but

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June 10, 2010
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Half and half

The word that sums up the view from the top of Mt. Hakoda would have to be breathtaking.  Stepping out from the ropeway car after a 15 minute ride over wave after wave of green forest that rose steadily beneath me I was stunned speechless but my joy leaked out through a grin that split my

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