Last sunset of 2015, from Kamakura on the Shonan Coast 2015 was for me a year of dramatic change.  So I was elated that I managed to com...

I can remember the first year or two I was road cycling, I would enthusiastically pick up "Bicycling" magazine in the U.S. and rea...

First, there were Hokusai's famed 36 views of Fuji . Then Hiroshige followed suit in the 1850s with another 36 view series . Now I h...

This Fall I continue to teach a class at Keio University's Shonan Fujisawa Campus on Wednesday afternoons.  More often than not, I do th...

We have had seesawing weather these past weeks in Japan, some days unseasonably wet, some days typical winter cold and wind, and even some d...

I really enjoyed riding the Renovo last month ... but a few adjustments remained since the ones I had made back in April when I first got it...

Nikko's famous Iroha-zaha An aerial view -- at peak fall foliage In recent weeks, I have been pretty much staying close to Tokyo...