TheSandiway

Sunday, October 16, 2016

Lake Biwa (琵琶湖) ride

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Lake Biwa (琵琶湖) is the largest lake in Japan, and just over the mountain, about 10 km from Kyoto. I rode to Ōtsu (大津) and then anti clockwis...
Friday, September 30, 2016

Daimonji-yama (大文字山), Kyoto

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At the culmination of the Obon (お盆) festival, each year on August 16th in Kyoto, fires are lit on the hillsides surrounding the city. One of...
Sunday, September 25, 2016

A bike ride along Kyotoyawatakizu (京都八幡木津) Cycling Road and to Osaka castle

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In the previous blogpost, I mentioned that my coffee run to Arashiyama (嵐山) along the Katsuragawa (桂川) used the Kyotoyawatakizu (京都八幡木津) Cyc...
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I'm very much a wannabe athlete. Compensating perhaps for a sadly unathletic childhood. For instance, I like to think I can run. But the sad fact is, although I keep running marathons, I'm too stupid to realize I'm never going to get that last 15 minutes I need to make Boston. I underachieve at swimming too. I swim like the Titanic after an unfortunate encounter with an iceberg. It's perhaps just as well that I have a AOW PADI scuba diving license. I used to be into long distance cycling: Boston brevets, a couple of BMBs (57 hours best time), a Pactour Elite Transcontinental, a NJ Hillier Than Thou winner's jersey and an El Tour Platinum pass. Even qualified for solo RAAM twice. All eons ago. I am trying to reclaim my old 2174 table tennis rating but I fail to see I'm mired in mediocrity despite acquiring a reverse penhold loop. I'd like to improve my nascent skiing. My day job? I'm a professor who loves linguistics and computer science. I write programs. I'm an Apple fan: Macbooks, iPods, and iPhones. I read Iain (M.) Banks. Love hiking, (spherical panorama) photography, a taste of Maudite and a good Bordeaux with music. I'm partially deaf in one ear. You have been warned.
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