Now that I finally have time to remember my 2023 Cherry Blossom Japan Tour, I will start from the beginning again.  Okinawa was a free stopover so I won’t say no to that.  It was lovely…

Sabusoka is supposed to be where they invented soki soba.  That made me very interested.

And it didn’t disappoint.  It made me feel like I was really in Okinawa!

Not too many tourists now.  The last time I came here I could barely walk.

Fresh Okinawan produce.

Can’t leave Okinawa without taking a tourist photo in my pajamas.  Then it was off to the airport for next stop, Miyakojima!

I got to Diamond Head today and looked at the ocean.  Waves were head high and good but there were 40 surfers on the outside.  So I calculate:  If I surf, I will have to compete for waves.  In an hour, I’d be lucky to get 10.  Now if I foil, I can have the whole inside to myself.  Nobody to compete against and I can catch 50 waves in an hour.  So I foiled.  First wave I connected into 7 waves, then caught a few more with the last one all the way to the beach.  It was a 15 minute session with a total of 10 waves.  On top of that, I was flying!  I drove home a very happy man…

I got home from the airport yesterday and my friend texted me “come to the wave pool Wai Kai, we are here.”  I was way too tired to drive out to the West side so I passed.  Then he showed me the video of that wave.  Then when I saw this surfer on the wave, I knew that style.  It was my friend Dexter Shimabukuro!  He was ripping!

Someday I’ll give it a try.  But not yet because first I want to jump in the real ocean!  

I just jumped on the scale and my weight was 85kg!  Omg, that’s 187lbs!  This is the heaviest I’ve ever been in my life.  So from today, it’s diet time.  Thank goodness Kimura-san put some Yamari Shirasu in my suitcase.  

This will be my dinner for the next few days.  Healthy and happy.  Thank you Yamari!  

Still had a lot of photos on my desktop so going to upload them before deleting.  Those epic days at Diamond Head seems so long ago.  But the good thing is it’s exactly like this today so that’s were I’m going.  

Hoping to see a colorful rainbow soon. 

And hoping to see the weather changing like this. Weird weather for the next week so expect epic nature photos.

Cherry Blossom Japan 2023.  I love it!

Good morning 5am.
Ala Moana waist to chest high and bumpy.
Diamond Head shoulder high and good.
Light winds so nice morning conditions.
Heavy rain this week.
Going to the sea.
Have a wonderful day!