I
also went to
Hakone this weekend, albeit briefly, as a stopover on a weekend trip to
Izu. I've been to
Owakudani a few times before on
previous trips to Hakone, and I don't care about hot-spring cooked black eggs, although the egg-ropeway is very cool. But I feel like a hobbit about to venture into Smaug's lair when smelling the sulfurous air and looking at the dark mountain with gas clouds in the foreground.
Something new this time was pampas grass (すすき).
I'd never heard of this place before, but it is apparently very popular, as this wide swath of gold was choked with people admiring the view.
It reminded me of the middle U.S.A., with its great endless fields of wheat and corn. Beautiful.
Sampling Eeyore's favorite snack.
I also went to Hakone this weekend, albeit briefly, as a stopover on a weekend trip to Izu. I've been to Owakudani a few times before on previous trips to Hakone, and I don't care about hot-spring cooked black eggs, although the egg-ropeway is very cool. But I feel like a hobbit about to venture into Smaug's lair when smelling the sulfurous air and looking at the dark mountain with gas clouds in the foreground.
Something new this time was pampas grass (すすき).
I'd never heard of this place before, but it is apparently very popular, as this wide swath of gold was choked with people admiring the view.
It reminded me of the middle U.S.A., with its great endless fields of wheat and corn. Beautiful.
Sampling Eeyore's favorite snack.
1. that is so pretty and i wanna go
ReplyDelete2. i always thought it was POMPOUS grass! dang it!
I didn't feel that the grass was especially pompous, but I don't know your life.
ReplyDeleteI might though if you would UPDATE. Beth, update! Aren't you all broke? It doesn't cost anything to write in your website. I love reading your entries. I am going to come over to your apartment and throw rocks at your window until you write more.
Wow great post.. it totally makes me want to stay there!
ReplyDeletehahaha! i always thought it was a fitting name, it just sways up above you all pretty and aloof. and i'm not broke anymore, i'm practically swimming in roses and yens.
ReplyDeleteK, I kind of wanted to just lay down in the pampas field and have a nap. Then a picnic. Then another nap.
ReplyDeleteBeth, glad to hear your financial situation has resolved itself for now. Here's to wild debauchery until you spend it all again.
how do you know me so well over blogz????!!!!
ReplyDeleteOne of my former co-workers used to say yens. She would teach it to the kids that way. She wasn't a native speaker but spent time in Ohio. You're not from Oregon by way of Sierra Leone, are you?
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