http://japan.kalisiak.com Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:23:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en http://japan.kalisiak.com/?p=15 Here's the last couple of days worth of journal from the trip... Saturday the 12th through Monday the 14th. http://japan.kalisiak.com/?p=14 This is Wednesday the 9th through Friday the 11th... http://japan.kalisiak.com/?p=13 Well, unfortunately, I didn't really have as much access to the internet as I originally figured on, so I wasn't able to keep the blog updated. However, I did write out 30+ pages in the trip notebook that I carried pretty much everywhere we went, and now it's time to ... http://japan.kalisiak.com/?p=12 So, usually, when one visits a Shinto shrine in Japan, there is a ritual that is performed in front of the main shrine. A 5 yen coin is thrown into the offering pit - the gods like those because they have holes in them - and then you bow twice, ... http://japan.kalisiak.com/?p=11