The Journal — Field Notes

The long way
round, in full.

Every ride and wander, in the order we found them. Pick one and read the whole way through.

A coastal road tracing the cliffs of Hachijō-jima above the Pacific
No. 01
Ōkagō, Hachijō-jima May 2011

The Long Way Round the Island

A single road rings the island — cliffs falling away on one side, the whole Pacific opening on the other. We rode it slowly, with nowhere in particular to be.

Full entry — coming soon
A long viaduct spanning a deep green ravine on Hachijō-jima
No. 02
Hachijō-jima, Tokyo May 2011

A Span Across the Green Ravine

The road climbs away from the coast and then leaps the ravine on a long viaduct — green folding into green, the sea left somewhere behind the ridge.

Full entry — coming soon
Cloud spilling over the crater rim on Hachijō-jima
No. 03
Hachijō-jima, Tokyo May 2011

The Rim, and the White Below

Up on the crater rim the cloud came in sideways. The drop on the inland edge simply vanished into white.

Full entry — coming soon
Last light over the islands of the Seto Inland Sea near Imabari
No. 04
Imabari, Ehime November 2013

Last Light on the Inland Sea

From the hillside the Seto islands stacked away in flat blue layers. The colour held for a few minutes after the sun was gone, then let go.

Full entry — coming soon
Mount Fuji rising beyond winter grass at Fujinomiya
No. 05
Fujinomiya, Shizuoka April 2012

Fuji, Across the Winter Grass

April on the plateau still wore last year’s brown grass, while Fuji kept its snow well into spring. A cold, bright, in-between kind of day.

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A working horse waiting out the fog at a mountain pass in Minamitsuru
No. 06
Minamitsuru, Yamanashi June 2012

A Horse Waiting Out the Fog

A working horse waited out the morning in a quiet mountain forecourt. By noon the fog had closed the whole pass in.

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