The rants and laments of Fred and his dad: 8/17/08

Wednesday, August 20, 2008

Sapporo og Utaro

Cool city. Also in terms of the weather. More details to follow soon. We have enjoyed three days here - and guess what: bumped right into Tiaré and Elizabeth from Shiretoko.

Tomorrow off to Sado Island and the city Ogi where we will attend the Earth Celebration festival. This should be exiciting...

Tuesday, August 19, 2008

Shiretoko - national park

Six hours by train and bus took us to SHIRETOKO.

It is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. http://whc.unesco.org/en/list/1193/.

We had a great trek to the 1661 peak of Mount Rausu - but it took almost five hours up and three down. Tired is not the word. Coming down however, there were three rotemburu (outdoor "onsen" - hot pools - which were soothing for sore limbs).

Mount Rausu is the highest peak on the picture of the Shiretoko mountain range.

The Youth Hostel was quiet old, but it turned out to be a multiple star restaurant: each night you could choose from several dishes - including a salmon dinner, where the youth hostel owner and expert cook started with a raw salmon in front of our eyes - and served five different salmon dishes over the next two hours!

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Hello! My name is Frederic, 17 years old, half Danish, half Thai.
I'm currently on an AFS exchange program until February, in Shimane prefecture, Izumo City, Japan.

This blog was originally used to document the experiences my father and I had when we were traveling through Japan back in .. August-ish, '08.

I'll be using this blog to tell my stories as well, and please, DO scroll. There's a LOT of stuff here.
If you're new, you should probably start from the first "exchange" post, labeled "From the moon". It's way down, and might even be on another page, depending on today's date.

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8/11 Updated top picture, quote, added new mp3 player and songs. The new mp3 player (lower one) will feature more lively/upbeat music, but will not autoplay. It also has a volume control, for safety's sake. Do check it out!!!
29/9 Finished first part of the new post.. It's been edited here and there, so if you've already read it, you might want to read it again from the start.
28/9 New feature; mp3 player! I'll update the music about as regularly as the quote. The music will likely represent my mood more, so I'm sorry if crazy techno starts bursting out your speakers!
27/9 New post, "When you wish upon a blog..", filled out TOMORROW!
4/9 New feature, I will now change the quote at the top of the page, in blue, when I update/feel like it, with something.. I feel like
3/9 New post, "Time capsule post"
3/9 ZOMG ADDED NEW STUFF, the lifeslices in Zeta Insert filled out, new post coming soon
25/6 Added new lifeslice stuff and titles to Zeta Insert, rest filled out sooon
21/6 Changed "注目 - ((( look here! ))) - 注目" block of text slightly
21/6 New post, "Zeta Insert", and edited "CHESS"

Welcome to TripThruJapan

Why this blog?
It is our diary - and our way of sharing the friendliness and overwhelming nature and culture of Japan with our old friends at home and with the many new friends we made on our travels.

Why this trip?
This trip was a son-father undertaking. Frederic (16) and Jannick (55) want to spend three months exploring Japan. We reached Soya Misaki (the northern-most point of Japan) on the 8th of August and landed on Hateruma-Jima, the southern-most island of Japan, on 15th of October. In between we travelled more than 3500 km with lots of adventures (and challenges :-)) - some of which are told in this blog.