Photo Journal: Asahidake (Mount Asahi) in Japan

For those of you keen followers of OnOurOwnPath (or OOOP-ers, if you prefer), you may have thought that we have fallen off the edge of the earth recently.  Rest assured, that hasn't happened.  We have been in 3 countries and 6 cities in the past month, though, plus a wedding, a travel blogging conference, and innumerable family get-togethers.  In other words, there have been a lot of "people" wanting to "do stuff" which has kept us away from our computers for a while.  We do have a lot of stuff upcoming, though, including many backlogged stories about our time in the USA and our ever-nearing triumphant return to Thailand.

With all of the time away from computers we have had some time to reflect on our site so far and in that reflection we've realized that we have, technically speaking, an assload of amazing photos that we haven't shared.  In an effort to stay away from blog posts that essientially say "this place was neat-o!" we've made a habit of only showing photos that fit in with a story we are writing.  It makes for good writing, but it does not make for a complete story.  So, we're going to take Barney the dinosaur's advice and share with you photos on a particular theme every week.

Our first series comes to you from the largest mountain on Japan's second-largest island.  We spent a fog-covered day climbing the smoking volcano to it's peak.  While most of the time we were surrounded by a thick layer of fog, we did get some moments of clarity to shoot the scene around us.  If it weren't for the numerous Japanese people around us, we might have assumed that we were somewhere in Canada.