It's snowing in Nozawa, Nagano Prefecture. I can't wait to go skiing tomorrow.

I hope it will be a lot of snow in Nagano during New year vacation.

We harvested some funny baby carrots in our vegetable garden. These are really interesting.

We spent the night in down town Asahikawa on Saturday. Next day, we went to Pippu ski resort. Pippu is only a 40 minutes drive from Asahikawa and easy to get there. It was a beautiful day, but the temperature was –15 degrees in the morning…

We went to Asahikawa in Hokkaido for our first skiing trip this season, last weekend. I received a e-mail from JAL airlines on Friday morning, and JAL said "We may cancel your flight on Friday night due to the snow storm in Chitose airport…

We stayed home last weekend.... And, we talked about skiing in this winter season. We're planning to visit Hokkaido for our first skiing in this season next month. Some ski resorts in Hokkaido have started for skiing with natural snow. But…

She likes get into small places.

We have a vegetable garden in our back yard. We're growing some vegetables in our vegetable garden. We harvested sweet potatoes at the end of last month, last weekend we tried one and it was so good. Next season, I'm planning to plant mini…

Japanese professional baseball championship games(Japan Series) were held in Hiroshima and Sapporo last week. In the Japan Series, Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters defeated the Hiroshima Carp. The starter of Hiroshima Carp was Hiroki KURODA in…

This was the final day of the our trip. After the we took a breakfast in the hotel, we headed to Budget Car Rental in down town on foot, because I had a reservation car rental, to pick up in Fresno downtown and return to LAX airport in Los…

Everything was carp in Hiroshima down town.

We're going to Hiroshima today. I can't wait.

Next day, around 8:30 am, we arrived at Emeryville Amtrak station in Oakland, CA without delay. Many passengers got off at this station, and they got on the bus for San Francisco… We changed the train at “San Joaquins” for Fresno, CA. Why …

We woke up at 4:30am on August 12th and jumped on the MAX train for Union Station in Portland. We arrived at Union Station 45 minutes before the departure time of our train to Eugene. So it was too early to go inside the station.. We went …

Everything was canceled today, due to the big Typhoon is coming to Kansai area.

We stayed at Best Western hotel in Wilsonville. The day started with a short drive for Portland and we returned the rental car down town. We looked around down town on foot and by public transportation. The down town of Portland was clean,…

At around 10AM, we checked out of the hotel and headed downtown in Portland by light rail (MAX). It was easy access to downtown, just a 30 minutes train ride from the airport to union station. It was really nice public transportation. In d…

It's raining in this morning in Sendai. The weather news said it will be raining today and tomorrow in Fukushima. It's too bad.

I'm coming to Sendai by ferry boat. Now, it's fine day, however it will be bad weather in this week in Fukushima. I hope it will be fine day.....

Our trip started flying for Tokyo (Haneda) on Tuesday (9/August) by ANA, and then we changed to Delta airlines for Los Angelas. Delta airlines had cancelled and delayed flights on 8/Monday (New York time) all over the world, due to loss of…

Her tooth fell out in this morning, but she is fine now….

It's too hot today in Kansai area... Someone, take me to the Canada, please!

We're back in Japan, and now I'm back work. This weak is going to be tough, because I have a jet lag now. I go to bed 8 PM and wake up 5 AM every day. I want to get normal soon. By the way, it's burning hot and so humid in Kansai area. I d…

We're waiting our flight for Tokyo at Portland International airport (PDX). We'll go back Japan soon.

I GOT IT! Thank you so much, KAWASAKI!!!!

We've just arrived at Fresno, CA with 21 hours train ride. It's too hot and not safety town in Fresno. We're going to baseball stadium tonight for watching Munenori KAWASAKI. I can't wait to see his playing.

We're waiting Amtrak train for LA at Eugene station, OR. We're staying one night in the Amtrak train "Coast starlight". This train is night train from Seattle to LA. I can't wait to board the train.

Congratulations! That's great news Ichiro reaches 3,000 hits in the big league. He's first Japanese player who became 3000 hit club member.

I'm ready to travel US in summer vacation. Next week, we're flying to PDX by Delta airlines. Delta airlines? I hope everything goes well.

The rainy season has just finished. It's real summer! It's the best season to drink the cold beers and cold Japanese sake outside house.