S. Tarr's Blog

As we progress through life, our priorities often change.

I, having been single for most of my 35 years of life, was mostly always only focused on myself, my own wants and needs, my own future, my own path in life. Now that I have been in a relationship for the last year, my priorities have changed, a lot actually, and if there is one word that can describe my year of being in a serious relationship, to me this new and unknown experience, that the word would be “Pursuit”.

In general, the Purs...

Monday, 02 January 2017.

For the past two months, I have been diligently clicking my time away, trying to get my hands on Bitcoins, with the hope, and promise, of getting Bitcoins for free.

Please note: Now there should be an immediate caution here, that even though you get “free Bitcoins”, you actually only get the smallest fraction of a Bitcoin for free for your efforts of clicking and view websites. You also have to first gather a minimum amount, which differs from each website, before you...

Sunday, 01 January 2017.

It’s been a while.

Since my last blog entry, I went back to Japan again, during late November and early December, and spent a most wonderful 3 weeks in Tokyo and Beppu. Throughout the time leading up to that trip, I had been constantly busy, either with work or with travelling around the Western Cape province of South Africa, but mostly I was busy with work, all the while being on anadventure with my girl.

Earlier in the year, I left my job of 13 years and embarked on...

How do you go back to your normal way of life, your everyday and ordinary, after having had an adventure that is completely out of the ordinary,such as I had in Hong Kong, Thailand, and Japan?

I know that many people have had the experience of travelling to another country, especially to a far-off country, and lived there, for however a short while, in a place that is different to their own. Some have travelled to multiple countries, and this even before they reached their 20s. Perhaps my exp...

Wednesday, 22 June 2016.

Three days into my hike along the Nakasendo Way, from Kyoto to Tokyo, by way of the Shiga, Gifu, Nagano, and Saitama prefectures, the journey ended. The reasons for this sudden ending of my trek was manifold, with various factors all aiding in the decision to change my course and travel in another direction, back to a place I had visited before, back to Beppu. But before that happened…

But before that happened, the time had finally come for me to start my much-anticip...

Sunday, 05 June 2016.

Leaving Hiroshima was not easy.

For one, its tragic past was an ever-present reminder of the frailty of life and the regrettable folly of man. Yet the city, as with all of the cities I have encountered in Japan, holds a festive mood and a mutual joy of coming together with others, with progress, sustenance, and renewal being a common theme amongst them all.

For another, I had to leave Mai’s side, the girl I met in Beppu, which I so quickly, and effortlessly, became accus...

Sunday, 29 May 2016.

It is a rainy Sunday morning, in Nagasaki, and I am on a bus, warm and dry, heading to Fukuoka, my final stopover on the island of Kyushu. In three days time, I will once again be back in Honshu, the biggest of the four main islands of Japan, where another infamous city, Hiroshima, awaits me.

But I am getting ahead of myself. It has been a while since I last wrote about my travels through Japan. As you can imagine, I have been busy travelling, of course, which takes up a...

Sunday, 29 May 2016.

It is a rainy Sunday morning, in Nagasaki, and I am on a bus, warm and dry, heading to Fukuoka, my final stopover on the island of Kyushu. In three days time, I will once again be back in Honshu, the biggest of the four main islands of Japan, where another infamous city, Hiroshima, awaits me.

But I am getting ahead of myself. It has been a while since I last wrote about my travels through Japan. As you can imagine, I have been busy travelling, of course, which takes up a...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016.

Back in Nara, the deer did indeed bite and also kick, which I happened to witness as a small boy was kicked to the ground as he was trying to feed a twig to a deer. I rushed over as the deer rose on its hind legs and kicked the boy right in the chest, him crying, and picked him up, carrying him over to his startled father. The boy was not hurt but the shock must have been enough to shatter his view on the cuteness of deer. Poor kid, I hope he turns out alright when gro...

Wednesday, 11 May 2016.

Back in Nara, the deer did indeed bite and also kick, which I happened to witness as a small boy was kicked to the ground as he was trying to feed a twig to a deer. I rushed over as the deer rose on its hind legs and kicked the boy right in the chest, him crying, and picked him up, carrying him over to his startled father. The boy was not hurt but the shock must have been enough to shatter his view on the cuteness of deer. Poor kid, I hope he turns out alright when gro...