recent happenings or holy shit finally have the internet at home

two days ago, james and i parted ways, for what will hopefully be for the last time in a long, long time. here is some of what we did in our crazy 2 weeks together.

flew up to the northern most island of japan, hokkaido, to see a WRC rally. while there, we traipsed through the woods and followed rally drivers on the highways, getting lost and loving every minute!

in this video you can hear the rally cars, but unfortunately we couldn't scale the mountain to see them (although we did cross the river!)

the next week we traveled to hiroshima for our final adventures together in japan. we rented bikes and rode around the city, saw the a-bomb dome and visited the hiroshima museum. the a-bomb dome was pretty unreal to see. the structure is preserved in its original state of destruction immediately after the bombing. the bomb was detonated directly above the structure. because of this and the fact its entirety was primarily constructed of concrete and brick helped it to withstand the intense heat and explosion. (being detonated directly above resulted in less destruction due to shock waves). this marks the seventh world heritage site i've been to in the world.