Posted on 01 November 2011.
If you find yourself without a car on Okinawa, you may find the following link to the Okinawan bus lines helpful. Our reader, Erika, submitted the following: When I was on okinawa last month this website would have been useful for me. Even though I read Japanese, the times on the bus stops arent 100% [...]
Posted in Cars, Daytripping, Maps0 Comments
Posted on 07 July 2010.
I got a fabulous email from Jennifer (who helps Tara manage the forum) saying something like, "I've been working on a little Google map project." That was the understatement of the month! If you'll point your cursor to the little GREEN square in the right side bar and *click* you'll see the massive project she [...]
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Posted on 19 January 2009.
CONTRIBUTED BY KANDY Honoring Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I would like to dedicate this post to his life, struggles, ideals of non-violence, and legacy as an advocate of human rights. Moving anywhere new has the added struggle of finding your way around let alone in a foreign country. Here in Okinawa, the street-naming system [...]
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Posted on 20 November 2008.
Reader Amy Hester had a great question for me the other day: “Just wondering if you know where there might be any running trails. I have plenty of running routes on roads, I just want to run some off road. I’m willing to drive pretty much anywhere on the island for some trails or even [...]
Posted in Exercise & Sports, Maps, Outdoor Activities3 Comments
Posted on 24 December 2007.
CONTRIBUTED BY MEREDITH NOVARIO Merry Christmas Eve! The boys are asleep. The cookies and reindeer food are waiting to be sniffed out by Santa and his four-legged pals. The stockings are hung in the stairway with tacks. The dog wants to go for a walk and I'd like to take a shower. Life is good [...]
Posted in Maps, Military Life10 Comments
Posted on 21 September 2007.
CONTRIBUTED BY KELLYERACEHas anyone seen this website before? It looks pretty gosh darn cool. DIDDLEFINGER It's called "Diddlefinger" and the tag is "check English addresses on Japanese maps". So, when you click on Okinawa, the addresses of the cities come up in English. (Actually, mostly, it's still in Japanese, but I think there's still enough [...]
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Posted on 19 July 2007.
CONTRIBUTED BY MEREDITH NOVARIO When we moved here two years ago, we rented this here house north of Kadena even though my husband worked at Kinser. Kinser is seven miles south of our house. And seven miles didn't sound like a long time because if there are no lights and no traffic and multiple lanes [...]
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