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Computer Jokes

by James Arendt
August 3, 2018May 2, 2022

MICROSOFT NEWS RELEASE: It has come to our attention that a few copies of the Georgia edition Computer Jokes MICROSOFT NEWS RELEASE: It has come… Read More »Computer Jokes

First Hitchhiking Adventure of 2016 from Niigata City

by James Arendt
March 7, 2016September 8, 2019

On March 4th, 2016 I hitchhiked 100 kilometers or about 60 miles to the city of Tokamachi. It is a city in the midst of… Read More »First Hitchhiking Adventure of 2016 from Niigata City

My First Hitchhiking Adventure of 2016

by James Arendt
February 2, 2016September 8, 2019

On January 31, 2016 I hitchhiked from the Hanawa service area in Akita Prefecture on the Tohoku Expressway back home to Niigata city. My friend… Read More »My First Hitchhiking Adventure of 2016

Monday adventure from Aomori to Niigata

by James Arendt
April 21, 2010September 8, 2019

Mr. Kato who took me to Kuroishi on the Tohoku Expressway

April 19, 2010: I had intended to hitchhike back home on Sunday morning but stayed in Aomori city in northern Honshu an extra day to deal with a friend’s PC problem. Hitchhiking on a weekend or a holiday is always easier. There are more cars on the road with families traveling longer distances. Weekdays, and especially a Monday mean people traveling for business reasons, and they are usually not in a happy mood.

But this morning I had help to get started. Rather than walk to the highway and try to hitchhike 5 kilometers to the Aomori Chuo entrance of the Tohoku expressway, the friend with whom I stayed with offered to drive me there. This gave me a 30 minute head start. My home in Niigata is 580 kilometers distance via the Tohoku and Ban’etsu expressways and I hoped to return the same day.