I’ll have to be honest. Renting a car to explore the Japanese Alps two days after Mom arrived might not have been my best idea ever. She felt exhausted by…
The Kingdom of the Monkey Skull
Noon on Yakushima Island. We have been hiking for nine hours, and are still far removed from our destination. Amidst the vines and boulders I spot something surprising right before…
The Return of the Fat Monkey
South of the Four Countries and the Nine Provinces there lies an island, touched, neither by the slow but all consuming hand of time, nor by the oft haphazard, chaotic,…
Warm Energy
Compared to the massive bulk of China, at first glance Taiwan looks like a tiny rock off the coast of the continent, where steep gorges cut the volcanic mountains into…