"He's unforgivably unforgettable." -My Mom

Summer is going-

2009-08-18T00:36:00.005+09:00

oh yes, in 2 weeks time the smells of fall will start to linger around--

summer vacation, I have been motorcycling again, all around my island-- maybe 3,000 kilos in the past few weeks. I went to the Rising Sun Rock Festival, its a large 2 day music festival on my island, pretty large, 6 stages, lots of bands-- saw some great music-

lately I have been going all analogue with a nice 30 year old OM-2, so photos will have to wait till i get that film developed.
I have some pretty silly stories from that trip... Ill want for the photos before I elaborate on those..

but here are some photos from last month, i played with photoshop.

hisashiburi

2009-07-24T23:49:00.002+09:00

well, its been a longggg time posting in this, I need to get on the wagon!

the latest from me, I spent the winter skiing,

there is me skiing, and some falling, taken with the cell phone--

some ski photos- me on the left on asahidake

and some awesomeness, on asahidake-

next! lately I have been brewing a lot of beer-

anddd I did a wood cut-- my one member motorcycle club--

launch! and Summer Vacation, Hokkaido Biking.

2008-10-02T23:13:00.004+09:00

(I must apologize for the terrible formatting.. Im new to blogger.com)

so my mostly complete site is launched. there are some things that I absolutely must add.. resume.. one of those strange self written bios... but its mostly done.

I thought I would share some photos of my summer-

In august my town had their Hana-Matsuri festival, the following days I went on a 4 day 1000 kilo motorcycle trip throughout northern Hokkaido.

so to the left here was my route- brought me up north from Asahikawa (home) to hokkaido's largest manmade lake- through the interior to the east coast. then to wakkanai- and down the coast to Rumoi.

then Sapporo, through Takikawa for the Bon Odori festival, and finally back home.

first off some photos from the rainy rainy Hana-Matsuri.

Here I am at Cape Soya, mainland Japan's most northern point-- from here I met up with some bikers from Osaka and we spent the night drinking at a Wakkanai Rider House.

note-- a rider house is a hokkaido only low cost lodging for bikers.. sometimes they are free... generally about 6$ or so though.
Rider house photos...

Packing up in the morning...

Here (left) is the hokkaido's wind-punished eastern coast... and one of my campsites!

Biking through... I forgot where. and parking on a helipad (I thought it was funny... like rap video funny.)

I ran into this kid at a rider house.. he is 17. He was riding from Nagoya, to Cape Soya(really goddamn far).. on a BMX bike.

and finally some random scenery-

2008-10-02T21:59:00.000+09:00

so this is my blog-- first post- tons of exciting huh?

so- Asahikawa, its getting cold. 5 degrees right now, snow is on the mountains. 2 weeks time there will be enough of a base for some yama-skiing.