Chicago...

Well I've been in Chicago almost 2 weeks now. It's good to be back. I do miss Japan a lot though. Job hunting is going well I guess. The daily drives like a dream. Had to take it in for a check engine light this week. Thank God for Clublexus. Internet forums can sometimes be your saving grace. Also got a quote for my 60000mi service. Not looking good haha. Probably gonna do it myself to save money. Some of you may remember Panda Pirate Brian's post about my going away get together at Yubo's. Well that night Yubo gave me a pair of his shades. Well when I got home, my mom liked them so much that she claimed them for herself, but being the cool mom that she is, she bought me replacements haha. So Brian being the awesome friend that he is <3 sent me 2 pair of X7X-Yubo shades, along with my cell phone charger that I left at Yubo's shop the night of the party haha. Check out his site here for his line of juzu beads/bracelets, glasses, stickers, and apparel.

JZ Meeting 2011.....PT 5

So FB is getting pretty popular with the Japanese people if you guys didn't know. Stole this off of Mr. Ueno from Vertex's FB page haha... Yes it is his page lol, I know theres a lot of spoof pages out there. He actually took this pic....









All other Photo credit goes to Rt. 16 Zee and Panda Pirate Brian

JZ Meeting 2011.....PT 1

So Jeremy and I have been trying to drive in this event for like 3 years now. Finally this year I talked to Alexi , and found out how to sign up. Since signing up I went to an event at Fuji Drift Park and broke my car, then had one month to get it back together for JZ meeting. Some of you may know that I'm leaving soon, so finding the motivation to work on the car was pretty hard. I got a push in the right direction when I went to Mobara with Brian from Panda Pirates. Riding along and having a ton of fun w/ him, I realized I couldn't leave w/out getting back out there again. All that being said, I was able to get the car back on the road. to attend and drive at 2011 JZ Meeting held by ST. Garage. Here are some pics from the event.

Mobara w/ Panda Pirate Brian.....

Just a few pics I took while at the track to support/ride-a-long, w/ PP Brian. I need to drive Mobara again!!

Prayers and condolences to all those that lost loved ones on 9-11 10 years ago...

A picture of the pits
Some cool guy's transportation around the pits... U jelly brian?? HAHA
Troy's Chaser and Brian's Silvia
Z. Zayas mounting his GoPro on the Magician 110 MarkII



Nice 30 Soarer... could use more low...
One of the hottest 180's I'd ever seen... he wrecked early in they day... may the car RIP...

Fuji Speedway SS/PP Colab....

So I went up to Fuji Speedway w/ Brian and Snoddy this past weekend. What a day. From the 2 hr drive through monsoon rain w/ the windows down cuz my defroster doesn't work.... to the fire I had later in the day... It was a long one. I had fun none the less. It was fun to be sideways again. Crappy that the day ended w/ my car on fire and me having to leave it at Fuji... only to pick it up the next day and pay a 500$ tow fee.... SIGH. Thanks to Mimi for all the translating throughout the day. I know that shit gets annoying sometimes... I owe you.... enough of that on to the pictures.... Photo's taken by Shawn Snoddy, Minami Watanabe, and Justin Hockersmith. I' have some I took that I will put up later....