The final hours are slipping away much too fast. You want everything to register in your memory. It feels like the struggle to hold on to a good dream before you wake. If you were in our shoes you would understand how you want to envelope yourself in the essence of this city and its people. An agreeable way to begin is to eat and drink with the locals and our friend for life, Marissa. We found a great place to eat called Pepper Lunch (see video), then we went to what amounts to a little Japanese beer joint and numbed some of the pain of separation with cups of sake.
