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Content warning: This story may contain sensitive material or discuss topics that some readers may find distressing. Reader discretion is advised. ------------------------------------------------------- Koshigaya City, Japan, Spring 2000 What if the place you escape to is already watching you? Once a bustling, four-season, port city en route to Tokyo during the Edo period, the freestanding, wooden buildings here with their rounded, clay, kawara roofs remained, having patientl

There's a reason Iceland is called the land of fire and ice.  I didn't fully understand that until the day the wind tried to throw my daughter off a waterfall. Volcanic Fields and Tipped-Over Motorhomes We were navigating the south tip of Iceland, heading toward Dettifoss  through endless fields of volcanic lava that stretched as far as the eye could see - in a Go Campervan .  The landscape was otherworldly—like driving on Mars, except Mars probably has better weather. A real