Images taken whilst hitchhiking around Japan. Tokyo, Kyoto and Fukuoka, Japan. 20/03/2010.
If you’re like me and you find yourself sleeping in parks (or should you be lucky enough to be on some coast, the beach), perhaps you should widen your horizons and stretch out that hitching thumb to get bound for parts (and parks) unknown, because if you are really like me and you have already donated, burned or stored all of your worldly belongings (except your camera, flask, flashlight and a change of underwear), then you may already be noticing a different world than that which the evening news programs speak. The world slows down and the sights change, sure, but it’s more than that. It’s the lesser senses which are more greatly affected when setting out on the open road. They get enhanced as it were: smell and hearing specifically. When in the fall those crisp winds begin blowing the leaves across sharp blue skies and all you can think of is pumpkin pie and finding someone with a warm bed for the coming winter, yeah, it’s that old chimney smoke smell of fireplaces reeling you in again. A call and response with mother nature and father time. Come the warm winds of spring it’s time to stretch the legs and set out again. Here are a few rules to live by:
http://sugardisaster.com
