{"id":44116,"date":"2014-04-07T19:39:56","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T10:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44116"},"modified":"2014-04-07T19:39:56","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T10:39:56","slug":"shikoku-to-nagoya-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=44116","title":{"rendered":"Shikoku to Nagoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve only been gone for a week but it felt kind of long.  so happy to have seen so many of my friends on this trip. would have loved to see more, but there is always a next time.  the great dinners, the laughs, the long drives, and everything brought me back to the memories of the past 24 years of my life traveling throughout japan.  all i can say is that i love it!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-18.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-18.jpg\" alt=\"photo 1\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-44117\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ni&#8217;ve been with TSSC for 20 years and known Yassan and Tomoko-san for even longer than that.  it&#8217;s my yearly trip to shikoku and it&#8217;s always great to see them.  as you can see through all the photos i took, it was yet another successful contest and i&#8217;m already looking forward to next years!  thank you Yassan and Tomoko-san for always taking care of me in beautiful shikoku!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-32.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-32.jpg\" alt=\"photo 3\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44119\" \/><\/a><br \/>\non the long drive back to nagoya, we stopped by tokushima for some tokushima ramen.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-23.jpg\" alt=\"photo 2\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44118\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nit was excellent!  now i officially gained about 10lbs in one week of eating amazing food!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-48.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-48.jpg\" alt=\"photo 4\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44120\" \/><\/a><br \/>\ndriving through japan is fun.  this is the awaji bridge which was the biggest bridge in the world.  i&#8217;ve been coming here from so long ago that this bridge wasn&#8217;t even here when i first came to shikoku.  we had to drive our car onto the ferry back then.  thank you awaji bridge for making us surfers life a lot easier.<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-55.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/photo-55.jpg\" alt=\"photo 5\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-44121\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nhad a wonderful time in nagoya with Saito-san, Kanae-san, Kosei-san, and Naoka.  friends who surf and friends who will always surf.  thank you Saito-san, Kanae-san, and Naoka for letting me sleep on the long drives.  and thank you Kosei-san for taking me to the airport from that crazy roller coaster park.  see you guys in the water!<br \/>\nwell, boarding my flight, it was another long cold day.  and also a very awesome trip to japan!  24 years ago almost to this day, i decided that i wanted to live in japan.  i made that dream come true and now i&#8217;m living in it.  thousands more friends, millions of experiences, and billions of memories.  leaving hawaii at age 22 was the smartest thing i&#8217;ve ever done in my life.  cheers!  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>i&#8217;ve only been gone for a week but it felt kind of long. so happy to have seen so many of my friends on this trip. would have loved to see more, but there is always a next time. the great dinners, the laughs, the long drives, and everything brought me back to the memories [&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-44116","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\/44116","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=44116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}