the nicest thing about travelling alone is that one is more open to any possibility with their surroundings compared to travelling with groups, when one has a tendency to stick with their group and never leave them.... and seriously, i just realized how awesome it is lately ... and it even make everything more unpredictable and lead to some surprises ...
after fukuoka i went to kyoto, a big city with more western tourist than the previous city ... had a nice shared room with friendly people in it .... it was nice, especially for a person like me who cannot keep my mouth quiet .... Kyoto itself was a nice city and had better historical place than Fukuoka (but still i miss the friendliness of fukuoka), and my fave spot to hang out due to the heat was the starbuck next to the train station ... spent quite some time there by observing people on the streets and taking street photo ... it was nice ...... started to buy souvenirs for some people ... well .. we'll see if they will like it then ... or just simply throw it to my face .... huehehehehehehhehehehe .....
next stop was takayama, historical city in gifu prefecture .... in the first second i stepped my foot there, i already loved the place .. it was a quiet place and with a lot of things to see, perfect for an old fashioned person like me and off course less western tourist..... went to the hostel..... had a dinner with other fellow traveler and there i met this girl, a taiwanese who speaks fluent japanese ..... had a nice conversation with her (eventough her english was not that good) .. but she was nice and unique ... i said unique because she left her job and planned to travel across japan with her bicycle for indefinite time (in her word, depends on her money for max one year period) ...crazy adventurous girl .... love that ....
after a nice conversation, we decided to go to Shirakawa-go on the following day (somehow after some "research" on facebook and with a help from google translate, i discovered that actually she didn't plan to go there ... surprising...) and spent a whole day there ... it was a beautiful place and to be travelling with a totally nice stranger with adventurous mind was awesome ... shiragawa-go itself was one of the prettiest place i have been visited .... nice company, nice food, nice conversation, what do you expect more then from from your journey? .... We separated ways just before the evening came, since she stayed there and i had to go back to takayama ....
until now i cannot get rid her from my head ... no, not because of that, even i have to admit that she is cute (yeah ok, me and my oriental look obsession ...) ... but the point is how different the life we have right now, she probably cycling right now through a highway in the western area or having a talk with the local people or enjoying the landscape or old building or other interesting stuff ... while me here fighting with my jetlag and back to my (lately) boring life ... i don't know how to explain it but in contrast, she sees new things everyday while i am staring at the same thing for the last three years .... and it gives me a strange feeling, while i admire her unusual lifestyle but i know i am not capable of doing what she is doing right now ... and i seriously admire her, as she lives a life (maybe) without any pressure from anyone (only perhaps from the weather), while mine is destined to satisfy other people demands ....
lately it is become one of my habits to check her fb, only to wonder where she is now ..... and believe me, it always surprise me .... it is strange that how the stranger that probably you will not meet again left something in you...... but yeah, as the life rolling on, all i can say right now is ... See you when I see you .... maybe one day .....
ps. more photo will come ...
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