What one sees when driving through the Iwabuyama Tunnel on Route 13 near Nakayama.... I think it was last week when I noticed that drivers were slowing down as they entered the tunnel. What was the cause of that? A cyclist going through th…

I was on my way to Sagae (which is atrociously pronounced "Saj" by the Apple Maps voice) on Tuesday. It was a nice day, a few clouds here and there but mostly sunny. A good stretch of the route picked out for me took me through the more ru…

I had a lesson with a 10 year-old boy on Wednesday and he was being his usual fidgety self; he'd be scratching his itchy spots, shifting positions in his seat, or be wandering off when his concentration failed. At one point he removed one …

Two trips to Sagae. Both times direct to a client's site. But the routes assembled for me by the Maps app on my iPhone differed considerably depending on my starting point. The route starting from home directed me to take the road up to Ka…