After I’m away on a long shoot, I always try to do trips with our boys or as a family. One of our sons was in his third year of studying Japanese at school, so we decided to go to Japan. We didn’t realize his eighth-grade spring break fell right in the middle of cherry blossom season. We kind of fell in the butter that way: We were lucky to hit it right at the peak, and it was sakura fever everywhere. I’ve never seen anything like it!
Japan takes a good amount of planning, and I owe a lot to the travel agent, Diane Sherer at Beyond, and the folks at Wondertrunk & co. in Japan. I think guides are instrumental. There’s customary behavior at certain temples, blessings and prayers you can ask for, and you don’t want to go into that blindly. It’s another culture and you want
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