ANATOMY
OF AN ADVENTURE
Companions:
(153) unwashed, pre-Buddhist mountain ascetics.
(1) 63-year-old geisha.
(19) one-ton bulls.
(23) 350 pound (average) sumo wrestlers.
(37) naked drunken Japanese fishermen.
(18) samurai mounted archers.
(34) firewalking ascetics.
(8) trained cormorants.
Lodgings:
6 romance hotels.
4 capsule hotels.
42 temples.
1 week in mountaintop Buddhist monastery.
Cemeteries and train stations.
 Activities:
68 electric baths.
10,000 lanterns (Day of the Dead).
40 tons of pounded rice.
57 judo workouts.
Collecting 22 kilos of aluminum cans.
6 months on a samurai mounted archery team.
900-mile trek along famous Buddhist pilgrimage.
Travel
time:
Train: 340 hours.
Bus: 64 hours.
Airplane: 46 hours.
Hiking: 848 miles.
Hitchhiking: 12 rides.
Car: none.
 Cuisine:
245 bowls of instant ramin noodles.
half a pound of sautéed crickets (recipe upon request).
seaweed.
38 raw eggs (breakfast).
One taste of fermented raw squid.
Endless green tea.
Obstacles:
Double pneumonia.
Japanese proverb: “The (American) nail that sticks up gets
hammered down”.
Cost of living: six-dollar apples.
2000-character Japanese alphabet (rediscovering illiteracy).
Learning to bow.
Result:
62 hours of footage
3,800 slides
2,600 journal pages
Fluent Japanee
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