Thanksgiving in Kyoto

Tokyo and Kyoto: For names so similar, the cities couldn’t be any more different. Last week I traveled south to the ancient capital of Japan for 4 days of touring, discovering and reliving. After weeks of failed planning and coordinating, three friends (Wally and two good friends from Macalester College) and I got our act together and booked our trip about 48 hours before we were scheduled to leave Tokyo. In typical college student fashion, the modes of transportation and lodging for our trip were by far the cheapest that we could bear to accept. Our ride there, an 8-hour [...]