After a 19 hour flight and an 11 hour time difference, there is nothing better than getting behind the wheel of a right-hand drive car for your first time and driving through the streets of Japan - which are, in general, wide enough to ride a bicycle through if you squeeze your elbows in and hold your breath. But it was time to fetch water from the mountains.
We stopped along the way so Yugo and his cousins Fusae and Rika could look for little crabs in a mountain stream...
and taste the local produce.
After finding no crabs but some sweet corn, we headed further into the mountains onto even narrower roads, testing Yugo's papa's ability not to hit cypress trees. At the spring, the best tasting water in the area according to some, Yugo rinsed and filled almost all of the small bottles by himself, while his aunt Yoshie filled the big reservoirs.
Mind sharpened by nerve-jangling driving and several glasses of Shochu, Yugo's papa "played" a game of Go with Yugo's Ojii-chan. It only took a few moves for grandfather to realize Papa had no clue what he was doing.
We stopped along the way so Yugo and his cousins Fusae and Rika could look for little crabs in a mountain stream...
and taste the local produce.
After finding no crabs but some sweet corn, we headed further into the mountains onto even narrower roads, testing Yugo's papa's ability not to hit cypress trees. At the spring, the best tasting water in the area according to some, Yugo rinsed and filled almost all of the small bottles by himself, while his aunt Yoshie filled the big reservoirs.
Mind sharpened by nerve-jangling driving and several glasses of Shochu, Yugo's papa "played" a game of Go with Yugo's Ojii-chan. It only took a few moves for grandfather to realize Papa had no clue what he was doing.
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