Masato's BC Adventure

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Flatus Fowler is Evil Yoshida. So that's new.

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Anti D as well.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Horseshoe Bay Ferry Terminal. I have been here hundreds of times in my childhood (had to take a ferry to see my grandparents [now deceased]) Many memories here, a magical place:


View from Ferry. I had my first major spiritual epiphany on the small island in the middle shaped like an anvil when I was about 10 or 11. There is a bible camp there and they brainwashed me somethin' fierce, lol. Religion aside, the experience itself was pretty strong and I carry it to this day as an important moment of my development/awakening:


Sit-down MarioKart on the Ferry Arcade. Had to take this pic for my sister-in-law who likes MarioKart as if it was heroin, lol. (Not my kids):


I slipped my book into the ferry bookstore on the 'National Bestsellers' shelf :D :

Geez Masato, I live in the village you know. You can almost hit my place with a rock from the dock.

I wish I had known about this now.

[Megaterio Llamas]

Here I have to tell a story (but no pics, sorry);

On the way home from the lake I was driving with my brother, wife & daughter (others in my bro's wife's car).

Driving through a neighborhood when my bro sees major SMOKE coming from behind a house. We turn back to investigate, and can't find the road in to where we saw it. Almost gave up thinking someone was just burning brush or something, but then realized there was a major fire-ban in effect cuz everything was so dry.

We go back and find the driveway, and there is a woman running around panicking. We realize its a fire. The woman and her husband are an elderly asian couple that speak no english and are FREAKING OUT. the fire is coming up real fast from behind their house and getting pretty big.

My bro jumps out like a fuckin superhero and asks if anyone called 911. They don't know what he's talking about and hand him the phone. He calls 911 and then somehow finds a fire extinguisher and starts fighting the fire like a boss, lol (I tried to get the garden hose but it wasn't working, and was kind of in a Jack Black-esuqe role thinking 'holy shit there's a fire!' while my bro was several miles ahead of me in reaction :D

Fire trucks come in I swear less than 2 minutes and they blasted that fire like fuckin champs.

I swear if we had not showed up when we did, in 5 minutes that fire would have reached the house and burned it. My brother was gleaming for the rest of the day. We left with no reward. Surely the eldery asian couple will tell elaborate tales of this mysterious red-bearded hero to their grandkids for generations to come, lol

I don't know when you left Masato but greater Vancouver and southwest BC is choking on the smoke from several forest fires on the Island and up around Pemberton not far from Whistler and Squamish. Saturday and Sunday featured a heavy dust in the air around the village here, a layer of thick smoke visible against the cliffside for all to breath. The cloudless sky has been overcast, the sun an eerie red blotch behind the smoky pall. A little wind this morning improved things a bit but it smells like burnt potatoes. Feels a bit like end times around here to be honest. Moron neighbor still watering his lawn round the clock of course. People are fucking beyond help.

[Canuckster]

awesome dude, glad you had a good time.

[Professor Diet Butcher]

If I have kids, I'm making them wear masks 24-7 as well!

Awesome pics. Hey, would like to hear more about that Bagua master too!

[Anti D]

this look very similar to place in world I am going this weekend, will try & take photos but not have the skillz to cover up faces or rather the luchadour masks are too expensive this time of year

that lake if drained & filled with those mountains would make a great car park

Maybe instead of taking expensive flight and vacation you move family out of dangerous Favela?

[superCalo]

The favela is not dangerous, it's a way of life, from garbage we come, from garbage we return, the favela just misses a few steps in between, keeps it real.

[Anti D]

I'm not sure if I believe that statement. I watch City Of God last week and It seem very dangerous. Li'l Ze go around killing everyone for no reason while Carrot try to find drug.

I watch video where some guy take 23 bullets in day time and loses flip flop. seem dangerous iMo. I know you jump shark daily but this seem more dangerous.

[Anti D]

If I have kids, I'm making them wear masks 24-7 as well!

Awesome pics. Hey, would like to hear more about that Bagua master too!

Probably for the best you don't water down the Chiuchow gene pool any lower than it already is Diet.