Comments on: Familiar Haunts http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/familiar-haunts/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 10:25:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Dave http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/familiar-haunts/#comment-11196 Dave Thu, 30 Aug 2007 20:08:50 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/familiar-haunts/#comment-11196 Very interesting point about tourism. I'll be smorgasblogging that. Ditto M-L's first paragraph. I'm awfully glad your fears about your health turned out to be unfounded, and that the trip turned out so well. Very interesting point about tourism. I’ll be smorgasblogging that.

Ditto M-L’s first paragraph. I’m awfully glad your fears about your health turned out to be unfounded, and that the trip turned out so well.

]]> By: marja-leena http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/familiar-haunts/#comment-11194 marja-leena Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:53:33 +0000 http://butuki.com/laughing_knees/familiar-haunts/#comment-11194 Butuki, thank you for sharing your dream trip with us. I'm so glad for you that it turned out so well and your health was good. Mixed feelings about going home is normal. Hope you will have found the strength to feel things more tolerable in Japan after this journey. You've certainly expressed a renewed appreciation for its mountains! Your comment on tourism is interesting. You say that this hanging on to the old world and keeping it like a museum is not good. Yet I think the excessive commercialization of huge high end hotels, shopping, tours etc. that emerge eventually in every beautiful natural spot is the opposite extreme and upsets me far more. Butuki, thank you for sharing your dream trip with us. I’m so glad for you that it turned out so well and your health was good. Mixed feelings about going home is normal. Hope you will have found the strength to feel things more tolerable in Japan after this journey. You’ve certainly expressed a renewed appreciation for its mountains!

Your comment on tourism is interesting. You say that this hanging on to the old world and keeping it like a museum is not good. Yet I think the excessive commercialization of huge high end hotels, shopping, tours etc. that emerge eventually in every beautiful natural spot is the opposite extreme and upsets me far more.

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