Booking hotels in Japan when you don’t have decent proficiency in the Japanese language is a headache. I didn’t have the stomach to have others suffer my very-rusty spoken Japanese, so I turned to Rakuten for all my lodging needs. Rakuten does have an English site, but I found the Japanese site to have a [...]
Will definitely head back to Tottori. Not likely to be during this trip, but definitely. Sometimes nature can really put you in your place. Soundtrack to these two days of sand and wind: Rilo Kiley’s Wires and Waves, and Belle & Sebastian’s Judy and the Dream of Horses.
It takes all kinds. And then there will be the kind, who will head out to the sand dunes, in newly-purchased raincoats (a size too small and too short) and charity boots, even when the rain falls harshly and the wind rages. Then we stand out in the sand dunes, among and amidst the sand. [...]
Then, like the sand, the wind is relentless. And it threatens, audibly and convincingly, that it can raise us, like it did millions of sand grains, and do as it wills.