Pillow Landings
Choosing where to sleep in Japan becomes an exercise in culture, comfort, compromise, and learning when to stop planning and simply arrive.
Read the note ↗A personal journal · Est. 2026At the edge
At the edge
of autumn.
Notes on Japan, travel, quiet places, and the slow work of building an intentional life.
Enter the journal ↗Japan ·
135.8188° E
秋口
The meaningAkiguchi means the
Akiguchi means the
beginning of autumn.
The moment when summer loosens its hold. A threshold season—quiet, golden, and full of possibility.
This is a journal of travel, Japan, old houses, food, walking paths, language, and the life I share with my husband, Jonathan.
A note to begin.
Notes from along the way.
Missing the Mark
On writing with an authentic voice, preserving contradiction, personality, and the human messiness that polished prose too often removes.
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Routes, Plans, Adjustments
Reworking a journey through the Kii Peninsula, choosing fewer stops, slower travel, and more time to actually experience the places along the way.
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133.4072° W
Fireweed
A field note on fireweed, from Alaska’s glacial landscapes to its traditional uses, ecology, and surprising presence in California.
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Three ways into the journal.
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Format · Field notesJapan
Language, culture, and the details that ask for a second look.
↗02Travel
Slow routes, shared journeys, and places worth understanding.
↗03Rural hospitality
Inns, old houses, welcome, and the generous shape of a stay.
↗Brief records of meals, walks, stations, weather, and light.
Explore →See all topics, formats, and tags ↗About this placeSome things are worth
Some things are worth
noticing slowly.
I write as a gay man, a husband, a traveler, and someone who believes good hospitality should make people feel safe and welcome—without making their differences the only thing in the room.
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