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Har Har, Matey, She Be a Fine Ship!
Cruising in Style on the Sea of Japan (Otaru~Maizuru)
March 23rd 2002 新日本海フェリー（小樽～舞鶴）
Okay, maybe you can call it "style" in the poor backpacker college student sense. But I still look back on this particular trip as the pinnacle of my travels. My photographer friend Kaz whom I'd met in Alaska was down in Shiga Prefecture visiting his family and invited me to hang with him and his girlfriend on a literary tour of Kansai. Of course
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