“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
~ John Steinbeck, from Travels with Charley (1962)
Joel Bowman with today’s Note From the End of the World: Buenos Aires, Argentina…
No time for rambling preambles today, dear reader… we are hard at leisure, preparing to journey into the future!
In forty-eight hours, give or take, we will be soaring over the international date line, passing from west to east, summer to winter, today to tomorrow...
That is, we will trade the tropical climes of Buenos Aires (captured above, in San Telmo, for your viewing pleasure…) for the sub-zero freeze of Tokyo, Japan.
As we type these words, dear wifey organizes shinkansen train tickets, downloads various travel apps and packs luggage for two, while dear daughter cycles through an endless wardrobe of “what’s cool in Japan, dad.”
Your editor, whose carry-on bag stands woefully empty, who remains endlessly uncool, knows nothing of where he is headed, and will gladly go where he is told, writes to you, instead...
We will check in with you once we are safely ensconced in our Ginza shoebox, before we head out to the the snowy mountains to experience the famous “Japow.” (Yes, we had to Google it, too!) In the meantime, please enjoy our musings from the week past…
And now for your Notes From the End of the Week…
Final Notes…
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Stay tuned for more Notes From the End of the World…
Cheers,
Joel Bowman
