OCTOBER!! Possibly my favorite month of the year... I love autumn and I love the food and sports and weather in autumn. So I think October is the best month to be alive.....

The leafs in Utah have now changed and actually we are expecting our first snow storm next week...Here is what my area looks like now.

View of the mountain behind my house.

This a little drive about 10 minutes from my house. I live at the base of the mountains.

Utah is famous for its sunsets...!!

I love this weather and I really like being here in October.... However, I love being in Japan in October too. Maybe for me the best month in Japan is October....It looks like I won't bet there this month but next month in November I will be back. Its a little crazy but one of my favorite foods in Japan in the fall is Oden and my favorite place to get oden is...... 7-11.  Serious!! 7-11 has great oden!!!

Autumn is in the air!!! Utah is starting to feel a little better. Still hotter than hell but a little better...

Today I went to a gas station and there I saw a Japanese guy. He was getting a drink. We talked and I found out he has been in the US since June. He was riding his bicycle around the US. Actually he started in Alaska and was going to Arizona. I couldn't believe it. He has rode his bike over 4000 miles from Alaska and it has taken him 3 months to get to here to UTAH.... AMAZING!!

So we talked and I invited him to my house. I gave him some food and a little money and told him good luck. We talked and ate for a couple of hours and he left. I was kind of jealous of him. I would love to do that. But he is a little crazy... anyway here is where he has rode so far. He is going to Arizona which is just under Utah and then flying home....

Actually I was planning on driving my motorcycle from Utah to Alaska next year. Many people to that. It will take my a few days to do. But thats on a motorcycle not a bicycle!!

After hearing about everything he has seen,,,, I am really excited to do this next year. Just me and my motorcycle!!

Now its about midnight on a Saturday night... I have been doing work in my yard all day. My dog Beebee loves to dig in the dirt in my flowerbeds... So I have decided to completely change my yard around. I am taking out all the flower beds and putting rock beds in... Hopefully this will help keep her cleaner. Today I am also dog sitting my nephews dog. So I have two dogs here with me tonight.....kind of crazy but fun. They have played and played all day while I worked. Now they are both asleep and even snoring!!!

Another year older..... damn!!

I guess there is nothing I can do about it... we are all getting older. But hey... thats life right?? Well here I am in the big 40s... kind of crazy!! But I did have an ok day... I mean I got to work a long day and come home and sleep... pretty exciting Birthday... at least BeeBee gave me a kiss!! hehe.

I have had a lot of people at my work ask me what I liked to watch in the Olympics. I really enjoyed women's soccer. (Or football if you are outside the US). Women's soccer in the US is really popular. We usually have a strong team and hey some of the players are pretty cute!! It was nice to see them beat Japan. I watched the women's world cup a couple of years ago and watched Japan beat the US in penalty kicks. It sucked... So it was nice to see them win this time.

But Japan played a nice game and are really respected in the states. I was asked so many times if I was cheering for Japan or the US... OF COARSE THE US!!! I am American!! But there is a small place in my heart for the Japanese team... thats true.



Now the Olympics are over its time for American FOOTBALL!! I am so excited this year I can actually watch the full season in the states. The last 5 years I have had to watch in the middle of the night or early early morning because of the time change. So this year I am getting ready. Actually I am going down to get me a new TV to really enjoy it... 60 inches of pure joy!! I guess at my age being home thats basically my joy....hehe. But I am happy to have friends come over to party during the game...!!

Go Broncos!!

Here we go again....

Its July and Hot!!!

As usual I have been busy. I spent the last two week in June in Japan. A crazy busy business trip. I was in Nagoya and then Tsukuba and then Gunma (Ota city). I was with 2 members from my team here in Utah.

We had a lot of meetings in Japan with Toyota and Subaru. Toyota is like my old home in Japan but Subaru for me is new.

Although we were at Subaru.... we drove a Mitsubishi Delica to go there. I used to have an old Delica when I lived in Japan before. Its a big van. But I loved that van. It was 4WD and took me all over Hokkaido. Even parts of Honshu. Sadly I left Japan at that time. Anyway... a couple of other team members decided to point out we were driving a Mitsubishi inside the Subaru Headquarters....

It was a good trip and pretty busy. I did visit the sky tree in Tokyo. It was a good couple of days in Tokyo just to play, relax, and eat some good food. But it was a little hot and humid.....

I returned from Japan and was dead tired. This trip killed me. Just too busy. I think I went to bed at around 3am every morning.... just too much this time. So for about a week I was dead at work and dead when I came home. I decided to take a few days off and go to Yellowstone. (I never can take time off because of my damn cell phone these days but I tried....).

So here are some pictures I took in Yellowstone. It was just a road trip for me. I just wanted to go for a drive. So BeeBee and I jumped in my Volkswagen and started driving. Yellowstone is always a great place to see nature and just get away from everything. We did go to Jackson Holy Wyoming and there the town was having their 4th of July celebration. Kind of fun. Here's my pics below.

This is the parade in Jackson Hole Wyoming on the 4th of July. HAPPY BIRTHDAY AMERICA!!

You can see Jackson Hole Ski Resort on Mountain.

Here are some pics of Yellowstone....

Grand Teton National Park... lots of Buffalo!!

BeeBee didn't want to get in the water. She tried her best to walk across the  tree log. BeeBee is deaf. She can not hear so I was giving her my sign language of "good girl".

Grand Tetons...

After Yellowstone.... I drove to another little cowboy town called Cody Wyoming. It really is a cowboy town. Very interesting... there they have wild deer that live and walk all over the town. BeeBee was chased a couple of time by the deer. BeeBee was a little scared of them. But the town was really cool and really brings back kind of the Old West feeling that was in America.

Deer at someones front yard.

Then it was a long drive back to Utah... I drove a different road back.... long and nothing!! Here was the view...

I loved this. I stopped at a rest stop and saw this van. On the back they wrote, "Please be patient  we are from Norway". It must be their first time driving in crazy America....

It was a long drive back... Glad I had some music, coke, and an air conditioner or I would have died....

Now I am back to Utah and just busy...Its a hot summer here this year so I guess its good to be busy at work... Still.... I am ready for some more time off.... Lately I wonder if its really worth it to be this busy. I mean life goes pretty fast... I have spent the last 10 years seriously working hard. I guess its been like medicine for me. But some feelings will never change no matter how hard you work... When I die the the last thing I say won't be, "I wish I would have worked harder"... I hope I would say, "Man I completed my responsibilities and helped society but also played around a lot and it was a good ride....".

May May May.... wow May is here!!! Its been forever!! Sorry my friends. What can I say?? I have been busy working and playing and facebook has taken over. So its been difficult to get back on this blog. But I am back anyway. Its been a nice spring in Utah. I went to Moab Utah for the Annual Jeep Safari. I couldn't do it all the time when I lived in Japan. But now I am back to playing in my jeep. Here are some pictures from my trip.

My girl and I.... She did really good on the trail.

This is a real mans jeep!! My next project!!

Down the slickrock

Balancing Rock

Hiking to "Delicate Arch"

Here I am at Delicate Arch. Beautiful weather and a great hike!!

Summer starts tomorrow!!! Let's do it again..

Here we are near the end of Feburary. Wow unreal!! Its been really busy for me getting my house fixed from the wind storm we had. My roof has been replaced and now my siding is almost completed. After that I have a couple of windows that need to be replaced and finally I may be back to normal....

I forgot how windy Utah can get sometimes. Its not always windy but we will have wind storms that come once in a while and when the wind comes its pretty strong. Much like a typhoon or something. The winter has been very mild. We do not have much snow here where I live but up in the mountains we have a lot.

Well the Superbowl was played a couple of weeks ago and as usual there was some great TV commercials. Here are a couple of my favorites.... Check them out..

This one is a kind of a remake from one of my favorite movies "Ferris Buellers Day Off".




Here is another one that I thought was really funny. This kid thinks his parents bought him a new car for his gradutation. But they really bought him a refridgerator. At the end him and his friends are yelling "best gift ever... best gift ever.. "



Well those were a couple of my favorites. In other news... last week I took Bee-Bee my dog for a drive and to take some pictures. It was bad weather actually but was able to catch some pictures of some seagulls...

Finally getting the house fixed. Yesterday 5 Mexicans showed up to my house to start putting on my new roof. It was a very loud day for me as they were working up there. I decided to go for a walk and then a drive just to get away from the noise. But happy at least my new roof is almost completed. A snow storm is coming in the day after tomorrow and it will be completed by tomorrow morning. So just in time!!