{"id":81547,"date":"2017-07-29T14:18:27","date_gmt":"2017-07-29T05:18:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=81547"},"modified":"2017-07-29T14:18:27","modified_gmt":"2017-07-29T05:18:27","slug":"bike-liver-and-barrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/?p=81547","title":{"rendered":"Bike, Liver, and Barrels&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5355.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81548\" \/><\/p>\n<p>gosh, i miss this life of just jumping on a bike, heading to the airport, and trying to get to some destination.  i always fly standby so nobody knows where i&#8217;ll end up.  sometimes perfect, sometimes not so perfect.  but the way i look at it is &#8220;if it happens, it happens.  if it doesn&#8217;t, it doesn&#8217;t.&#8221;  so no matter what i&#8217;ll never be disappointed.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5356.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81549\" \/><\/p>\n<p>this time it happened.  and i was very happy to put my headphones on and fall into a deep sleep.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5357.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81550\" \/><\/p>\n<p>not even 5 minutes, i was out cold.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5358.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81556\" \/><\/p>\n<p>but i did wake up to watch a movie and eat ice cream.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81551\" \/><\/p>\n<p>arrived to Kansai pretty fast.  got out in 5 minutes and jumped on a train.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81553\" \/><\/p>\n<p>clean and efficient.  Japan has the best transportation system in the world.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5371.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81558\" \/><\/p>\n<p>arrived in Wakayama at 9pm, then sat down with Kimura-san at our favorite place.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5365.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81552\" \/><\/p>\n<p>i started off with the freshest oyster!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5364.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81554\" \/><\/p>\n<p>you wouldn&#8217;t believe how creamy it was.  after my first bite, i was so satisfied that i could have jumped back on a flight to Hawaii and been totally happy.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5366.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81557\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kimura-san knows i like to eat weird things.  the kind of things we don&#8217;t have back in Hawaii.  so i ate some liver.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/IMG_5367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-81555\" \/><\/p>\n<p>then ate some eggs.  a couple beers and a Jack on the rocks later, i was in heaven.  <\/p>\n<p>went to pick up the van, grab my 7 surfboards, say good bye, jumped on the 2:45am ferry, another 2 hour drive, and arrived at a very glassy and clean river mount barrel.  got a few barrels, took a nap, and now going back for round 2.  cheers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>gosh, i miss this life of just jumping on a bike, heading to the airport, and trying to get to some destination. i always fly standby so nobody knows where i&#8217;ll end up. sometimes perfect, sometimes not so perfect. but the way i look at it is &#8220;if it happens, it happens. if it doesn&#8217;t, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81547","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-kirby-blogs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81547","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=81547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=81547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=81547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/go-naminori.com\/kirbyfukunaga\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=81547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}