chadkoh’s avatarchadkoh’s Twitter Archive—№ 16,059

          1. Now that I am safely home, here is a thread rounding up the adventures today in Saga for those who couldn’t catch them live! 🧵 (note that each tweet below is a thread of its own) 1/8
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          Left in the AM driving through the flat countryside to get to the mountains in the north 🚜 2/8 @chadkoh/1371985647624327168?s=21
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        Drove twisty mountain roads, then climbed to the top of Mt Sefuri to a combination shrine+Air Force base ⛩🪖 3/8 @chadkoh/1372007472769077250?s=21
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      Next was why I REALLY came up the mountain. To Go back 1000 years to the birthplace of 🍵 4/8 @chadkoh/1372046816573673472?s=21
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    Back down in the plains I went back ANOTHER 1000 years to the GIANT Yayoi Period village of Yoshinogari 🛖 5/8 @chadkoh/1372068818298621953?s=21
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      It has a number of sections including this high security inner sanctum 🏯 6/8 @chadkoh/1372077839147692032?s=21
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        Finally, I returned back to downtown Saga where I had an epic carbonara 🍝 🥚🧀 @chadkoh/1372122929127825408?s=21 7/8
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          Those were the highlights. Now I am importing gigs and gigs of pics and vids from all the other places today for processing once I get back to Iki next week. Thanks for coming along! 👋 8/8
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            BTW if you enjoy these travel tweets, and know someone interested in Japan, please SHARE 🙏 🙇‍♂️ My goal is to popularize Kyushu’s contributions to Japanese history and culture, mostly by highlighting what I call #kyushufirsts
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              My methodology is 1) travel to location and live-tweet like a crazy person with an unlimited data plan, 2) later write a more in-depth blog post with photo galleries on Flickr and YouTube, 3) one day gather this all up in a narratively entertaining travelogue/popular history book
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                So I appreciate any help in connecting me with people who are passionate about this kind of stuff like me. Cheers! 🍻