Ghibli Museum
There’s something strange about seeing something that originated as an animation and then made in real life. (and I’m not talking about action figures and souvenirs either.)
Examples:
animated Baby’s room ceiling in Spirited Away–>ACTUAL ceiling in Ghibli museum
animated soot balls from Spirited Away–>ACTUAL soot balls
animated robot from Laputa–> ACTUAL life size robot from Laputa
You get the idea.
The place was packed with little visual clues from Miyazaki’s movies. PACKED. I guess it’s like the Disney land for Ghibli fans, only cooler. The whole place was set up so there wasn’t any one right way to go through it. You just wandered and discovered as you wanted.
At one point, I turned a corner and found two little stairs up to a tiny, dark door. This is what I found behind it. Me!
Most of the rooms had crafty little animation demos explaining the process involved in making the films.
In one room, I witnessed all of the drawings made for his latest film, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea. (Imagine three couches made entirely out of stacks of paper; each one a different frame of the movie. Then, combine them all together in one big pile and put them in a small glass room. That was the number of drawings it took!)
Even the outside was enchanting.
Sometimes, I was sure I was more excited to explore and see the exhibits than the other kids were.
The only downside: They wouldn’t let me play on the cat bus.
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“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That is not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Michael Crichton, 1988
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Hey! I’m Harley. Nice to meet you. I’m a girl constantly on the lookout to gratify my curiosity about the world through travel. My first taste was a hop across the pond to France when I was 14. I returned 4 years later to explore a little more of Europe, and 3 years after that (this past summer) went straight to the Land of the Rising Sun to live and study for 2 1/2 months. And I can’t ever get enough.
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wanderoverhere is a travel blog aimed at inspiring travel and learning in others.
Travel teaches and brings us back to ourselves; no matter who you are or where you’ve been there’s always something to be learned.
Where?
Here, there, anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.
Travel is as familiar as our bodies, the earth, the wind, and is at all times and places a point of reference for metaphors, and a resource of meaning.
When?
Always.
Learning takes place constantly; while traveling, after, as reflection. It just takes a minute to recognize the value and closeness travel and learning have.
Why?
Because it’s not just about learning where the cool vacation spots are.
A vacation is an escape from life; travel is the capture of it.
Travel
Weaves the fabric of our lives
Allows for self discovery
Necessitates an awareness of self
Develops character
Enhances intelligence
Reminds us who we really are
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Validates our curiosity
Enables a sense of overall well being
Revitalizes our way of seeing the world
Helps us connect with others
Erects lifelong memories
Requests a test that brings a certainty of self
Enables the greatest learning of all
The goal is to share what I and others have and continue to learn through travel and to encourage others to do the same.
So, wherever you are from and whoever you are you can wander. Be it by your feet or your brain, or both; explore, discover, inspire, travel, learn.
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