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Honshu and Okinawa

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I am back. I spent 10 days in Japan, 5 days for work on the main island of Honshu and 5 days of solo adventure in Okinawa. Travel is so invigorating dispite the uncomfortableness. Jetlag, anxiety, crowds, and other discomforts aside, it is mind-expanding and rewarding. Work went well. I flew a new airline (Skymark) from Tokyo to Naha. I am always wary of strange discount airlines and all the traps they set. However, I had a great expereince with "Sky". I was actually shocked. Super easy checkin at the airport, no extra fees even with extra luggage. The primary mission in Okinawa was to visit the Peace Park and the suicide cliffs of Okinawa. From what I understand, at the end of WW2 the inhabitants were encouraged to commit suicide rather than surrender to the Americans and get tortured and eaten. Besides other types of suicide, they jumped off the cliffs at the Southern end of the main island. If you have seen the original color footage taken at the time, I am sure you ...
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Did some driving around Southern Europe. Got to see Carenvale in Bassano Del Grappa, and a nasty traffic jam on the Autobahn.
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Can your combine do this? (I mean if you had a combine). I am in Bassano del Grappa, Northern Italy.
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I am at ATL waiting for my first leg of another whilwind trip to Europe and back. Headed to JFK first, then Venice Italy.
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Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist but the ability to start over. --F. Scott Fitzgerald,American author Even on your gloomiest day it is bright and sunny just a few miles away. The trick is realizing those few miles are in a direction you hadn't previously considered, straight up. --Charles Dowdell
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I am back in Atlanta. I made it into Heidelberg for a day. We met in the Heidelberg Print Media training facility on the top floor. It is a significant piece of architecture, no doubt. It could probably be considered a form of modern castle. It is the tallest building around. I had several notebooks I used for years that had an image of the facility and the Pegasus art on the cover. It was weird being there after being so familiar with my notebook image for years and years. I didn't get any time to doing anything touristy in Germany this trip. But, it was a productive trip. I will be back in other parts of Germany in two weeks. The blurry graphic is from a restaurant menu in Heidelberg. It seems to show a devil wheeling someone into a fireplace. How interesting.
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On plane to Frankfurt Germany.
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I haven't been blogging much lately. Mostly, I have been too busy. A lot has been going on. I really feel this is going to be a good year. I have chnaged some fundemental approaches to some of life's problems. Stress can be successfully reframed. I am in Wichita Kansas. I call the ICT airport the biggest little airport in the country. Today's example was that I tried to check in with an hour before launch and the kiosk and customer service people indicated that is not enough. I have to take the later flight. I can make it through a huge airport like ATL with less than an hour even at peak times. No so at ICT. It is not a negative comment about the airport. It is just a comment. I am getting a lot more serious about buying a house in the Northern Atlanta area. The deals are as good as they are going to get. I surprise people when I tell them how good the deals are. you cannot build a house for a new house is going for. The three remaining llamas have a new home. Profe...
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