{"id":75747,"date":"2017-01-30T15:41:34","date_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75747"},"modified":"2017-01-30T15:41:34","modified_gmt":"2017-01-30T06:41:34","slug":"cold-white-mountain-to-warm-blue-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=75747","title":{"rendered":"Cold White Mountain to Warm Blue Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"

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left our place in Susukino yesterday morning. took a walk to the station slipping all over the streets.
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full on snow build up on the streets of Sapporo. i felt like i was walking in a freezer.
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pulling my suitcase in the snow, and walking in my wet sneakers. my sneakers and socks were wet on the whole trip!
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got the subway to Sapporo. i should have caught the taxi.
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yes, i should have caught the taxi. but i ended up saving $4. was it worth it? nope!
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had to warm up so ate a shio based hot ramen.
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jumped on the 2.5 hour flight from Sapporo to Fukuoka. a normal $400 flight but only $94 for me because i’m a foreigner. lucky!
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arrived in Fukuoka and transferred airplanes. i wish i could have stayed a night there.
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but once i got on the flight, i was happy to be heading home. closed my eyes and slept for 6 hours straight.
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opened my eyes and watched the sunrise.
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i always check the wind report in hawaii so i know which way the airline will fly into the airport. then i choose a seat on the side of the airplane where i can check out the waves. i seen the big west swells wrapping around the island so i knew where the best waves would be.
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gosh, look how many houses they built in ewa beach!!! this is crazy! i remember when there was nothing before.
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came home and jumped on the yamaha. headed straight to the ocean. i wanted to be in the free wind so chose the bike over the truck.
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more free wind in the ocean by Mayuki. i had a running nose for 6 days in japan because it was freaking cold! once i jumped into the ocean, it was gone in a second.
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and omg, the water was warm and crystal clean!
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i pulled up to my secret spot and surfed with nobody around! the waves were super perfect and i even got barreled! i couldn’t believe nobody was out on this beautiful sunday? guess i’m lucky again! <\/p>\n

feels great to be back home to the blue ocean. the white mountain was amazing, but just way to cold for a local boy from hawaii. i missed my life with shorts and slippers. good night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

left our place in Susukino yesterday morning. took a walk to the station slipping all over the streets. full on snow build up on the streets of Sapporo. i felt like i was walking in a freezer. pulling my suitcase in the snow, and walking in my wet sneakers. my sneakers and socks were wet […]<\/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-75747","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\/75747","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=75747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}