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September 2010

Running with the gods

Posted on by Previous Contributor Tom Orsman

Like this post? Help us by sharing it! It was 5:30pm on a warm Wednesday in the small town of Aso on the island of Kyushu. I was drunk, drenched in sweat, and on the verge of a coronary. I was also missing one of my recently purchased and highly treasured flip-flops. I was in […]

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Tagged: aso, elements, Festival, gaijin, gods, Japan, kyushu, mikoshi, nihonshu, running, sake, shrine, Tom Orsman

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