Saturday, March 7, 2020

Rainy day at Arashiyama

Imprudent to go to Korea or China because of coronavirus. Mongolia has sent home all non-essential personnel employed by the Embassy, including Peace Corps volunteers, so we are not going there for a while.  consequently we are staying in Japan and sightseeing outdoors -- Shrines, Temples, and plum blossoms.  Baseball is being played without fans.  Sumo is cancelled; museums are closed; tourists are almost absent; bunraku (Japanese puppets that inspired Jim Henson) is cancelled.  Schools are closed. 

We are hiking, and planning some serious hiking.

Even in the rain Japan is amazing.  

For one thousand years
Crossing the Oji river
On wooden pylons





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