{"id":38032,"date":"2013-09-03T14:39:24","date_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:39:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38032"},"modified":"2013-09-03T14:39:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T05:39:24","slug":"hnl-to-nrt-to-tpe-to-oka-to-tko-to-hnl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=38032","title":{"rendered":"HNL to NRT to TPE to OKA to TKO to HNL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s only been a week since i left hawaii. 5 flights, trains, taxis, busses, and cars.  last flight leaving tonight from narita and i&#8217;m ready to go back home, sleep on my own bed, drive my own car, and do what ever i feel like doing.  the first thing will be surfing for sure!<br \/>\ni&#8217;ve known Kazuma since he was born.  at 14 years of age, i&#8217;m finally seeing the funny side of him.  he&#8217;s smiling more, and making people laugh.  oh, and surfing a lot better!  this kid is okinawa&#8217;s future!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GOPR0024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GOPR0024.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38034\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsuper stoked to see Hayato having a good life in okinawa.  surfing\/diving\/traveling.  that&#8217;s the dream life!!!  never a boring day.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GOPR0063.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GOPR0063.jpg\" alt=\"DCIM100GOPRO\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38035\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nmy friend Craig Sako is experimenting with organic umeshu.  he told me it will be ready at the end of next year and i&#8217;m looking forward to trying it out.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-Shot-2013-09-03-at-2.19.49-PM.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Screen-Shot-2013-09-03-at-2.19.49-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-09-03 at 2.19.49 PM\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-38033\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nmy best session of this trip happened in Taiwan.  beaches closed, typhoon near, nobody out, and it was ocean vs. man.  the most challenging conditions but we managed to catch a few good ones.  luckily Anan was on the beach documenting the whole thing.  Kimura-san had my camera and photos will come as soon as i can download it on my card reader i forgot to bring.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0408.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0408\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38036\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nsurfing taiwan style.  slow pace just like hawaii.  that was a cool experience.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0471.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0471.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0471\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38038\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nthis is Tinmei, a taiwan longboard pro.  Tinmei&#8217;s been following Go-Naminori so was stoked to meet her.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0447.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/DSC_0447.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0447\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38037\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni scored these precious shells in taiwan that will go into my world shell collection.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-5.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/photo-5.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-38039\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>can&#8217;t believe it&#8217;s only been a week since i left hawaii. 5 flights, trains, taxis, busses, and cars. last flight leaving tonight from narita and i&#8217;m ready to go back home, sleep on my own bed, drive my own car, and do what ever i feel like doing. the first thing will be surfing for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-38032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-kirby-blogs"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=38032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38032\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=38032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=38032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=38032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}