Wishing everybody who reads the best. I hope 2012 is off the a great start for all of you. I'm a doing great, and just got back from an epic day snowboarding.
Here are some photos and notes from the past 2/3 months.
I'll start with Nov/Dec, which were good, ending with an good finale in San Francisco.
So this is my friend Aki, who I bike and snowboard with. We did some mountain biking this day. Taken Nov 11.
A shot from the train close to where I live. It's a good place, no doubt.
In Tokyo, at the airport. Singapore Airlines was fantastic, by the way. I saw two Santa's (fat white guys with long beards in red) at the airport. Taken Dec 24th.
I like this one. I arrived in L.A.X., and I would be lying if I said part of the goal for my American adventure wasn't to drink some good beer. And the tea made it from Japan.
A shot of Denver from the plane. At the time, I was incredibly stoked, as you might have guessed.
This picture is actually kinda of difficult to look at. Jameson made some absolutely delicious food from Christmas eve.
Pretty epic, and self-explanatory. It was good/great/fantastic.
Taken Christmas Day, before me and Tembo went for a walk.
So the whole family traveled up to Aspen. Cam took some days off and skied with us. Free tickets to Apsen. It's gross how much he saved us.
I have a good friend named Andrew and their family owns a house looking out at Aspen. Cool, huh?
My first picture from San Francisco. This is Ben, and as you can tell he is from Tasmania, and we went to school together in Santa Barbara. We had a great time traveling around the north bay area.
One of the biggest surprises I had about America was the grocery store. It was SO big. Coming from Japan, airing on the smaller portion size...and if any city in America is going to lead by example and live on less, you think SF would be the place.
I saw another friend Joe, who I also know from Santa Barbara, and he showed my around the San Francisco area. This is a picture of the Golden Gate Bridge. Taken Jan. 2.
So, back to Japan. This is Aki, the kid from the first picture. Ishikawa, the place where I live in Japan, is super close to the Japan Sea, so the snow can be wet and heavy. But this day was good.
This is Shane and Mariko. I know Shane from UCSB, and Mariko is his girlfriend living in Japan. We met up in Osaka, and spent the day kickin around. This is around Osaka Castle, which is an epic spot.
I guess I'll end on this one. So this was near Osaka Castle, too. This dog's name was kuri, which means Chestnut, and also sound close to my name, kurisu, or chris. We saw maybe 20 dogs, and they were all wearing clothes.
So those were some of the good pictures from the end of 2011 and starting off on the right foot for 2012. I hope a couple people read this and enjoy :)
Best Wishes
Chris
