Shikoku Pt. 2
I ran across this article in the Metroplis and I know that it was fate. It just can't be a chance sighting can it? I am not a strong believer in God or anything like that, but it is a little creepy. Well anyways, I feel a strong desire to go to Shikoku and see some of the temples. I know that probably will not be able to take the 2 months it usually takes to make the journey unless me wife lets me. Well, I doubt that will be the case if you know what I mean.
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Simon Rowe |
Mr. Rowe gives a outstanding description of life on Shikoku. I wish I could live there, but then I remember the description of the typhoon season makes me think twice about that. "From June through September, Shikoku takes the brunt of the typhoon season, so much so that the Cape’s inhabitants jokingly refer to their stretch of coastline as the “Typhoon Ginza” of Japan and have incorporated bunker specifications into their houses—steel window shutters and reinforced walls clamped down by heavy clay roof tiles—to ensure the village doesn’t flutter off to Siberia each year."
When I was a lot younger, my grandparents owned a cabin here in Minnsota in the "north woods" of Cross Lake, Minnesota. We managed to make the 8 hour journey at least 3 times a year making the summers go by so fast. I loved the time I spent there enjoying the sun and the water and the time alone on the lake.
One thing that does stick out in my mind the many time that we were there enjoying the vacation when a sever storm to brew up lash us with feirce winds and driving rain. The cabin was built, I believe, around the turn of the century and lacked a indoor bathroom and shower. So when it was time to do nature's duty we has to use the outhouse. This fact alone made sitting in the outhouse while the wind bent the trees in unnatural ways a scary time.
My grandparents had a TV that they brought up from their home, but the only problem with that is the reception. I mean that we could only get one channel on the TV. So if you didn't like what was on then you were out of luck. Well good thing we were in a paradise lost now to urban SUVs and yuppies.
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