The WTF Experiences II The Adventures of Garrett Russell: Land of the Rising Sun

March 25, 2009

Land of the Rising Sun

Once, it was a huge accomplishment to travel from one town to the next. Now a days I think we all take advantage of how easy traveling has become.

With that said I am blessed to have been fortunate enough to experience the air and water on the other side of the world. Here are some photos of my adventure thanks to my friends Tatsuya T, Mike R, and Zizo K throughout Japan.

Check out their stories and more photos at the links below. I would like to say thank you to everyone that helped making this adventure happen and support my style of living! "Every sunrise is better than gold," Robert Earl Keen

http://www.bravoski.com/tobicom5/item_634.html
http://www.zizo-photo.com/
http://www.skitheeast.net/blogs/bd/2009/03/13/Ski-The-Far-East-Part-1/
http://www.skitheeast.net/blogs/bd/2009/03/14/Ski-The-Far-East-Part-2/

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Intro

A boy comes to a dark, desolate corner of town called "the Street of the Lifted Lorax," to learn who the Lorax was and how he got "lifted and taken away." Through a "whisper-ma-phone," the Once-ler tells the boy what happened. When the Once-ler first arrived at this place, it was a beautiful, sunny forest where the Swomee-Swans sang, the Humming-Fish hummed, and the Brown Bar-ba-loots played in the shade while eating the fruit of the Truffula Trees, colorful woolly trees spread throughout the area. Enchanted by these gorgeous trees, the Once-ler built a small shop, where he chopped down a tree and out of its furry foliage knitted a "Thneed", an odd-looking but versatile garment that he insisted "everyone needs." Out of the stump popped a strange little man called the Lorax, who claimed "I speak for the trees, for the trees have no tongues." The Lorax first scoffed at the Once-ler's creation, until someone came along and bought it. Spurred by greed, the Once-ler invited all his relatives to town where they started a huge Thneed-making business, chopping down Truffula Trees left and right, much to the Lorax's distress. The skies gradually got darker and more polluted, forcing the Lorax to send the Bar-ba-loots, the swans, and the fish off in search of a better place to live. The Once-ler, while upset to see the animals go, dismissed the Lorax's pleadings until the last Truffula Tree got chopped down, leaving the Once-ler alone with the Lorax and a failed business in a desolate place under a dark smoggy sky. With a "sad backward glance," the Lorax picked himself up by the "seat of his pants" and floated away through a hole in the smog. At the end of the story, the Once-ler reveals that he has one last Truffula seed left, and instructs the boy to start a new forest so that "the Lorax and all of his friends may come back."

March 25, 2009

Land of the Rising Sun

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