Since becoming fused at the hip in 2004, Scott & Megumi have managed to explore most of Japan’s 47 prefectures and much of South East Asia, all within the limited confines of the Japanese holiday calendar. Now, in their own respective bids to stave of mid life crises and stagnation, their goal is to explore the frontiers beyond. A mission in search of new challenges, stimulation and perspectives – to tease out the historic & cultural wonder of new countries & to simply experience and admire the new, the magical and the different.
No flies on... oh!
Scott (aka Nev)
As an Australian born in bush NSW on a large sheep & wheat property, Scott has ventured far from the proverbial tree. Having spent the last 14 years farming the bountiful virtual fields of marketing and the Internet as a consultant and executive roaming across Asia. Scott lived in Sydney for many years, followed by a brief stint in Hong Kong, before settling in Tokyo, Japan where he met Megumi & has been living since 2001.
With an eclectic taste for the unusual and quite partial to anything of an electronic, visionary, historical or psychedelic orientation; Scott is an escapist extraordinaire, a media / knowledge junkie with a compulsion to map & comprehend. So in a desperate bid to in part stave off mid-life inertia and actually make some progress on that great path to enlightenment; Scott is finally getting off the couch – to interact rather than consume; to experience rather than observe; to immerse himself in the real, rather than the virtual and most importantly mix more magic and soul with the science! He for one can’t wait to see what comes out the other side…
Megumi
Megumi, P-Chan & her wine
A native of Shizouka prefecture Japan, Megumi trained as a classical pianist under the shadows of Mt Fuji, before throwing it all in to study psychology in the States. 6 years later she reared her head – fluent in english and an empath, remarkably adept at self diagnosis. After a year living in Europe (Holland & Italy) she returned to Japan and embarked on a career spanning translation, technical writing, gaming, internet/software development and online marketing. 10 years on, she is quite sick of the virtual and desperate to break from the urban, desensitized treadmill that can be work life in Tokyo.
With a fine eye for photography and a lust for new linguistic challenges, wines, tastes, fashions and flavours, Megumi definitely represents the culinary, style and refined passions in this little adventure. Additionally as a closet mountaineer with a secret dare-devil streak and a perchant for all things feline – expect Megumi to keep the travel tales especially vivid, tasty and interesting!
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Hello, I just by accident was visiting your site and I saw in one page in this link:
http://meltingplots.com/tag/sign/
You said you don’t know actually what it says in Farsi, so I want to help you if you don’t mind.
That sign exactly says: When greeting, avoid hug, kiss and shaking hand.
I hope it will be hopeful for your site,
Regards,
Arya
Scott, a very important message for you starts 3 paragraphs down.
Megumi, I love your passion for your beautiful homeland, Miyagi, and that you’re crusading to help your loved people to recover from quake and tsunami.
I can empathize with the Japanese people, having spent 3 years living in Japan as a kid age 8 to 10, (and which I remember like yesterday). From our country house outside of Tokyo, looking over the rice fields, our family had a beautiful Mt. Fuji view.
Once we spent a few days in the Karazawa mountain resort, high in a lush green, mountain environment (which must have been a lot like Miyagi), and stayed in the royal family’s summer palace.
And Scott, now that I’m grown up, my getting “off the couch” adventure, was leaving the corporate world, of which I’d grown very wary. I decided to change my life by doing something completely different — traveling all over the world to beautiful exotic places and transforming lives by teaching relationship trainings everywhere I go.
I started doing that in ’07: lived a year on Koh Samui, Thailand, doing my trainings in addition to 100’s of 2 hour Introductory Mini-Trainings, which were in themselves, transformational.
For the next year, ’08, I did the same thing everywhere I went: The first half-year, I spent time mostly in Bali, but also, Singapore; and then Australia.
In the other half of ’08, I was mostly in Sydney (Scott’s digs). And also spent time in Melbourne, and the Gold Coast. India, was the only place I visited that I didn’t facilitate a training.
Now my trainings have been turned into a book being self-published with Balboa Press coming out about mid-May, ’12. The title is “HE♥RTGASM – Increasing the Intimacy & the Ecstasy with Your Beloved.”© I’d love to use one of your photos shot at Khajuraho in the book. Can you please tell me where to send a formal-letter request?
Thanks so much to both of you for being a big inspiration to me and I’m sure countless others.
Toni