I have a strong feeling that Japan will lift all its border restrictions like Singapore for individual travellers very soon and boy, from Kansai, we head to Hokkaido this time to take a look at the clear blue skies! Ladies and gentleman, may we present you the Ventures 1990 Gerry McGee's Japan live version of Hakkaido Skies (cover)! Yes, it s a beautiful song and Mina says she wants to try sitting down playing this beautiful song!
If we go to Hokkaido, we must go now, as I want the Hakkaido king crab because it is in season from September to October. Than I need to eat a lot of the "Bafun Uni", which Bafun literally means "horse dung"....uni is sea urchin, not armpit hair, ok? What else, a lot of uni with rice, than whatever fresh sashimi they have...no, will skip the white chocolate factory. I don't want to drive in Hokkaido so I hope someone from our band, The Cotton Kids, will drive. I am GPS phobic but I can read a good old map and plan the routes. It is a skill, ok? Many people go to Hokkaido for skiing but I am retired from skiiing. When i skiied, snowboard wasn't even popular. I don't want to recall the bruises I had everytime i skiied. So, Hokkaido is for great food and fresh air. The winter there could be quite bitter. Wait, even if the border restrictions in Japan are lifted, when we return, we'd still have to be quanratined in a designated hotel for 7 days. Besides, air tickets are pricey these days (supply and demand), so, I will just eat the uni from Dalian for the time being and will settle for a king crab rangoon. To tell you the truth, there is no crab rangoon in Asia at all. Period. No fortune cookies too.
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Ride of the song: Mercedes Benz W140 500SEL x 2
Yes, we need some big old sedans in Hokkaido. We need two of them, as the rides are long, and I don't want to be driving and only want to sit at the back. I want the long-wheel base ones of course, and 300 is underpower so at least a 500. The V12 looks actually nicer (with a different grill and the V12 emblem). But, it drinks too much gas and is too heavy. We need two of them as i don't want to be cramped with my band members cruising around in Hokkaido so it's just whoever will be driving me (maybe hire a local driver?) and just me at the back, to fully exploit the back seat, while others can be in the other identical car, or perhaps an 500SE, as I think it looks a bit tighter in terms of overall proportion. But, a few inches more legroom at the back is a few more inches. ;-))) If they are in the other car, no one will know I will be snorling during the ride (except my driver).
These two W140 sedans have to be in dual tone: glossy black with grey lower side molding panels, just like how they were when they first came out in the early 90s. Largers and chrome rims would be nice, but the stock ones are fine. I need them to be the pre-face lift models with parking assist poles rising from the corners of the back of the car, and better yet, perhaps with headlamp wipers. No clear corners for sure, as I prefer the era correct orange lenses. Mine has to have rear pinic burlwood tables. After all these years, to find an aftermarket pair cost just as much as how they would for their predecessors; curtains can be ordered nowadays but back then, they were only available in Germany and last time I checked, the manual ones were around 200 euros and power custom curtains like you would find in Rolls cost.... boy, two rear sides and the rear, fabric curtains with remote control, USD5,500. I would have to source from a Rolls Royce aftermarket specialist in Russia. Manual ones for an Arnage limo was USD25,000 (from Bentley) so these Russian bespoke curtains are comparatively reasonable. I don't really need them because the streets are wider in Sapporo, and you don't see very many people peeping inside the car at stoplight. But, it'd be nice to have them because I would ship them back to my hometown. These W140 has double pane glass windows and they are quiet. Wait, USD5,000 for curtains?! I can eat a lot of horse dung uni and king crab with that! hahaha! Maybe tinted glasses would be good enough for these stately sedans. So see you in Hokkaido!
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5 окт 2024