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Niseko, Hokkaido in winter
There is a stillness about the winter air, a refreshing clean cold cut through by the howling wind, the clatter off hail, the smell of hot spring onions in ramen. The eerie, monotonic colour and quiet on the evening slopes is my favorite kind of silent night.
CA-MT-WY-WA Campervan Road Trip Guide: Harvest Host Stays, Bear Spray Hikes & Alpaca Farm Adventures
CA-MT-WY-WA: Have van, will travel. A campervan was Iggy Goh’s idea of rolling travel and accomodation expenses into one, he also found a great resource called Harvest Host, for an $84 annual subscription, you can stay at 4000 farm, winery and attraction locations across the US. These provide safer private land overnight parking,
Pacific Northwest Family Adventure: Literary Road Trip Through Farm Stays & Natural Wonders - From Multnomah Falls to Seattle's Monster Trucks
CA-MT-WY-WA-OR: Multnomah Falls to Bend, Oregon to spend time with Dad’s roommates and Purdue swimming alumni families.
Kyushu is the best roadtrip, a dramatic wide open low-density country with colours and cragginess reminiscent of the US. We took the train past the Mazda factory to Fukuoka and drove through Beppu, with its steaming hillside sulphuric aquifers, pausing in the charming Diagon Alley-like gourmand town of Yafuin and the narrow and expensive ryokan-strewn cobblestones of Kurakawa Onsen;