I’m laying low for a few days, visiting family in Eugene, where today I picked up two journey books: John Brandi’s Diary from a Journey to the Middle of the World and Basho’s Narrow Road to the Deep North; I lost the latter, fittingly enough, in a move many years ago, and with Brandi’s book in hand it just seemed the right time to replace that long lost copy. Both of these found, by the way, at my favorite Eugene used book store, Tsunami Books.