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Dad email

11:18am JST Saturday 01 April 2006

Dad!!!!!!

Really great to hear from you!

I have just gotten back from the second global voyage, and am
preparing for a solo bicycle ride to Kyoto (perhaps 600 kilometers,
but I'm not really sure), where I hope to do a 10 day Vipassana
meditation course.  15 hours meditatin' per day.  Wow.

I have applied for a course that starts April 25.  Interestingly, my
pocket calendar finishes with April, so the last days just have an
arrow drawn off the end of April into nothingness.  It seems poignant
in some way.

A few passengers from the voyage have offered me places to stay, which
is a real blessing.  I no longer have a cell phone in Japan, though,
so I'll be looking for internet access in cities along the way,
hopefully free WiFi, which is not uncommon to find floating around
near apartment buildings.

No work visa, so I have to leave the country within 88 days now and
counting.  Don't really have money to buy a ticket, but I trust the
universe to provide a pleasant way to escape this island.

Love and Love
    - Rob!




On 4/1/06, my dad wrote:
> Rob, 
> 
> HI!  How is it going with you??? Where are you???  etc, etc, etc.  
> 
> just finished raising
> the ceiling in the game room (it had sagged 2.5-3.0" in the middle of the
> room) then built a wall to break it into a 10X12 "bedroom" and a living area
> around it.  We then replaced all the carpet in the house with slate. All
> this was in a rush to get the house ready for visitors on April 8-9 when
> Elise gets commissioned into the Navy (she is getting her MD/PhD paid for
> and will owe the Navy 5 years then).  Just lots of stuff to do. 
> 
> Here's some info for you for yor Aussie friend.  When we went in 1985, we
> drove from Sydney up the coast to Coff's Harbor, then inland to the top of
> the coastal escarpment and stopped one "winter" night (it frosted, and we
> were cold as ... in the travel trailer) in the town that has a University
> that is Austrailia's "Cambridge" University.  The stars were sooooo
> beautiful and bright.  I got everyone up and we all trooped outside (in the
> 2AM freezing cold, shivering) to look at them.  We then drove back to
> Sydney, then out to the Blue Mountains, then back to Sydney and flew home
> via San Francisco.  Didn't know if you remembered all that. 
> 
> Love and Light!!!
> 
> Let me know what your plans are if you would.
> 
> THanks...
> 
> Love, 
> 
> Dad.

TJ Bike

2:25pm JST Saturday 01 April 2006 (day 13156)

Back on TJ Bike; slept at Jesse's last night, got up, laundry, dishes, emails, Hitomi bugging to meet me, so now instead of going to Jesse's to plan my route, contact peeps who offered housing, I bypassed a lunch offer at Kellie's to meet Hitomi at Futakotamagawa at 2:30pm, i.e. now.

Just chillin' occasionally remembering to be patient, but not really wanting to fuck with her. Maybe it will be fun.

But that's not why I'm writing. I'm recording Karen (Kazzah)'s comment when I said I was scared about trying to ride to Kyoto, afraid I might run out of resources (e.g. food) and just die. She said, "well, you're not going to actually die... and, it's worth givin' it a go."

Brilliant.

finished

8:09pm JST Saturday 01 April 2006 (day 13156)

No foolin'; Hitomi and I have stated we are officially finished. It only took 6 hours and 1 year to figure out how to do it, but it seems to be done.

I really appreciate her efforts to speak English and give me her opinion of how I can change myself and what I need to do to change and become better in relationships. I expressed my opinion of people using my journal 'against' me. Yes, I am the same fuckup in relationships as I was 6 years ago. Make that 10 years ago. 15+, if you like.

As scheduled in Sakura Shinmachi station at 6:30pm, as of 8pm, while sitting in McDonald's after I was already pissed off at myself for having rearranged my schedule to meet her, (thereby giving myself another night at Jesse's instead of getting on the road (during which time I will hopefully be able to do a modicum of planning)), got even more pissed when the manager wouldn't give me a cup full of shake, but just 90% full, and gave me a big batsu with his arms, so I spilled shake on the steps, (about as much as he wouldn't give me, I gave back), Hitomi pointed out how I have anger management issues, and I'm like, "oh you're a fuckin' genius," and how I don't communiate with (but just have sex with) women who can't speak English well and she looked so smug when I agreed with her on that one.

Cripes, this is a sorry sack of shit journal entry.

But I'm done with Hitomi.

tonight

8:32pm JST Saturday 01 April 2006 (day 13156)

To do tonight:

1. find the list of people who gave me addresses

2. look up their addresses online

3. plot out a path

4. email them

5. burn CD of images for Tomoko

zzzz Jesses

2:02am JST Sunday 02 April 2006 (day 13157)

At Jesse's house now; have just spent an hour or so talking about our respective belief systems about God / religion / The Big Picture. It wasn't the best conversation I've had on these terms; we both got frustrated, partially because we are tired, and partially because we didn't follow the ground rules of non-interrupting.

Jesse said he should have been taking notes from the beginning.

I would actually like that, because I haven't yet taken the time to write down all my thoughts on this crazy topic.