A backpacker travels around the world with only one bag.When we are alive, we want many things. We want to own a lot of things.We want to own many things, as if it is our status.It seems like we need a lot of things to survive.Backpackers …

What an old man I met at a hot spring in Nagano Prefecture taught me. When I was a teenager, I was hitchhiking all over Japan.During my trip, I visited a hot spring deep in the mountains of Nagano Prefecture.While I was in the hot spring, …