North of Tenryuji


As the light faded, I walked North and got as far as Nison-in Temple.

On the hike to the next temples going North, I passed several rickshaw drivers carrying people around, and talked with a few when we walked in the same direction.



This was my view for most of the walk.



At a little shrine Tenryuji and Nison-in.



Nison-in Temple. Sitting on the back porch watching the raindrops fall, I met a Los Angelina traveling with some friends of her brother, who works in Kyoto. When I asked, she told me she did in fact already cast her vote. Then she started grousing about the food in Japan. (This to me, a man on an unexpected culinary flight of fancy.) She's not eating carbohydrates and is having a hard time eating in Japan. Well, my restrictions are much more severe than that, but I can understand how hard that might be. Still, I said to her, "About the carbohydrate thing . . . . Take a look at the people here. I want to eat whatever they're eating." There's basically no possible way that the Japanese diet could be a diet that makes people overweight.



They do have some funny trees here.






Posted: Sun - October 31, 2004 at 11:44 PM        

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