I read or heard a quote a while back. I don’t recall where I saw it or where it originally came from, but it has been knocking around my head a lot lately. The saying, as I recall it,…
Something Still Lingers…
Visiting Normandy around D-Day is a surreal experience, much more so than I can express in a short post. It’s like the Fourth of July, Memorial Day and Veteran’s/Remembrance Day combined and translated into French and for now I’ll leave…
Wandering Tokyo with a Camera
I’ve lived in the area near Tokyo for several years now, but it still amazes me sometimes how the city can be such a contrast, one neighborhood to another, one place to another, sometimes even one block to another. Most…
Hamamatsu Castle: A Missed Opportunity
In my last post, I wrote about the charming castle they rebuilt in Kakegawa. As it turns out, the next city down the line towards Nagoya, Hamamatsu, also has a rebuilt castle. Hamamatsu castle, however, is on the opposite…
Away from Home – Wandering Around Sasebo
Sorry for the lack of updates lately. As my friend and co-blogger mentioned, we’ve been on the road traveling for Christmas and I’ve spent the New Years holiday down in Kyushu visiting David. Once I get home later this…
Why am I here?
Welcome to Wayfarer Daves. I’m Dave Hansche, and for my first post, I’d like to talk about the experience of traveling and a bit about why I do it. I am not really what one might think of when…