The Sun Sets on the Year That Was
Wrapping up a lot of matters over the next week, including the year 2006. What may be my last hike of the year was my first since moving to Okinawa, providing an odd parallelism.
With some friends, I climbed a hill with no idea where it would lead. Found a viewpoint which, happily, had a panoramic look at the Pacific side of the island:
Sadly, someone had inexplicably looted the 100 yen spyglasses. Even with a good zoom lens, this just isn't the same:
At the hillcrest was an abandoned hotel called the Shah Bay Sunset View Resort. The name, aside from containing a homonym for my own, was apt. I ate some onigiri rice balls for dinner as the the sun set, watching this.
Every time the sun goes down, the sun is coming up somewhere. Here's to new beginnings.
