You wanted it? You got it. I have decided to grace the internet with another amazing entry. A few weeks ago I went to Okayama Prefecture, which is adjacent to Hyogo to look at leaves. Yes, leaves. They are hot like fire when they seasons change from summer to fall and the leaves change their color. Honestly some of the colors are striking and being one to appreciate a nice color contrast decided to whip out my jaded camera and take a few pics. We stayed one night in an “international villa” which was empty except for us 10. Party time. We didn’t have time to look at leaves when we got there since it was already around 5 pm and being Japan there is no such thing as daylight savings. At least it is light out when I wake up, barely.

View from the villa room

The villa had an attached onsen, this one was the real deal, fed by a natural hotspring. This was not all ours and we had to share it with the local community. Interestingly enough if a father and young daughter go to a bathhouse together no one blinks an eye when he takes her into the men’s bath. I’m not pedo, but this type of thing would never fly in America. Just be confident most Japanese girls have seen a boatload of dick and will be able to tell that yours isn’t normal. Also of note, I seem to be getting super light headed after baths nowadays. I will have to adjust my bathing technique. After the bath we returned and had nabe, which was really good on a cold night. The rooms at the villa were decent and had two beds and an interesting shower/toilet seen below.

Oh, there's a toilet in shower? That's odd.

I see, the toilet is there too, and you have to pivot the sink to cover/reveal it? Super.

As you can see it was a ton of fun using the sink, toilet, shower, or any combination of those three. Onto the leaves. First, we went to this park area where a fuckton of people had decided to do the same thing and looked at some motherfucking leaves.

Bridge over the peaceful river. The bridge was closed, otherwise it would have to hold the weight of 1,000 Japanese (~12lbs)

Ballin' tree with an equally ballin' reflection in the water. Straight gangsta.

Peaceful river with boulders. These boulders were HARD like real G's.

Red leaves. Blood 4 Lyfe.

Gold leaves. Latin Kings: King Leaf son!!!

After the tourist spot we headed over to Okayama City for some lunch (curry) and to check out the old district of town (also curry) that had many English-influenced buildings and lots of other nice structures.

This is the real hood. Prison with no bars. Blood in, blood out.

What is the best way to embarass your family? Put them on this boat while thousands stare at them.

Possibly the sickest roof tiling ever, I would put that on every exposed surface I own if I had the means.

America take note. If you have pretty trees and interesting masonary on your bridge no one will write 'MS-13' or '88' on it. I promise.

This tree is slowly turning from tree-Hulk to tree-Bruce Banner.

Poison Ivy was later found inside hanging upside-down bound and gagged.

They may look calm and docile, but these swans fucked up some other bird that had the audacity to touch their river. WHITE POWER.

The trip was fun and got me out of Himeji for a while, which is always good. As awkward as looking at leaves was it was interesting and something that I don’t get to see in the EVERGREEN state very much.

I will try to take more photos. Maybe I will try to document my daily routine or something. Maybe. Probably not.

Here is some topical music:

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Here are some pics from one my bike rides up Mt. Hiromine north of town. The ride was one of the hardest endurance exercises that I have ever done. Once we got to the top and onto the trails it was usually pretty fun. There were good spots to get some speed and I really pushed my biking limit. I did things that I was sure I wouldn’t be  able to do, but once in motion I did technical climbs, narrow paths, and up and down sections without wiping out as my brain told me I would.

The view from halfway up the road section going up to the top. I was very tired.

So tired

So very tired.

The dangers of the mountain. These non-poisonous spiders liked to place their webs in the middle of the trail and place themselves around nostril level when you are on a bike.

My German dominatrix, Stefan. He helped push me up the mountain. Thanks Stefan. (BTW the spider is named Stefan)

I present you the TRD Toyota Harrier. Or as you Yanks know it the RX330. You have never seen one like this.

Recognize the gold rims. I could actually stand seeing one after the other of these in US instead of those nasty 330s.

I also bought an XBOX360 today, so once I get internets I will show y’all why you are indeed all faggots.