The Magnetic Pull of a Purple Umbrella
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 03.06.02 | 1:31 AM ET
It was raining in Japan and Karin Muller lacked an umbrella. The omission was conscious. Muller was already hauling enough in her backpack, and she wasn’t afraid of a little water. So when a generous pension owner gave her a four-pound purple “wooden paper ceiling,” she tried to “lose it.” But whenever she tried to leave it on a train, she says in a Savvy Traveler audio postcard concerned Japanese locals wouldn’t let her get rid of it.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
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