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it's only 24 prefectures after all

the journal of Michael Werneburg

twenty-seven years and one million words

Kokubunji, 2024.10.19

I was looking at the map of my travels in Japan and realized that although I'd colored in Gifu as if I'd spent time there, I can't recall actually having done so. So I'm restating my map. Saga was only the 24th of 47 prefectures I've visited.

rand()m quote

If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea.

—-Antoine de Saint Exupery