My friend Jason invited me out to his cottage in Nakadaki, Chiba (a prefecture just east of Tokyo where a lot of commuters live), so I came out for an overnight stay. I don't know Chiba very well, but it's near the ocean and has some good surfing spots. When I go to Chiba, it is usually to catch a plane at Narita-where the interantional airport is. After a nght of excessive drinking we drove around to some beaches and there was a women's surf competition going on nearby-I liked the mural in this picture (plus a bonus for the penaut gallery). Next weekend we are planning to rent some cottages in Nagatoro, Saitama (a prefecture north of Tokyo where I used to live when I first came to Japan-but this area is in the far west and the least populated part of the prefecture). So that means, in the last three weeks, I've wil have hit all the local surounding prefecture-including my stay in Kanagawa with Arie last weekend-which is unusal, because I don't often get out of Tokyo proper since there's so much to do here.
We're going to have to pool together and buy Pat a camera with more megapixels and a telephoto lens.
Posted by: Arie | May 30, 2005 at 11:08 AM
If there's a PayPal link, I'll donate to THAT effort :-D
Posted by: gnorb | June 01, 2005 at 06:28 AM
I didn't actually need a zoom here since the girls noticed I was taking a picture and said thank you-I guess I could have asked them to pose...
Posted by: MC | June 01, 2005 at 11:39 PM