"Dave Fossett" <reply@via.newsgroup> wrote in message news:f7DYa.365$U8.221@news1.dion.ne.jp...
> "Ed" <gwbush@whitehouse.gov> wrote:
> 
> > > Sounds like something I recall from Dave Barry's book on his travels
> > > in Japan. An interesting read, IIRC.
> >
> > As far as I'm concerned, Dave hit the nail on the head. By far the best
> book
> > on Japan you are ever going to come across.
> 
> I suppose there are thousands of these "what I did in Japan" books, but
> "Hokkaido High Blues" by Will Ferguson is also a good read. He hitchhiked
> the length of Japan following the sakura zensen, and the book describes the
> people he met along the way.

    Sounded like it might have been inspired by
Alan Booth's "The Roads to Sata".  He walked the length
of Japan and described the people he met along the way.

--Collin