Misha returned to Japan for almost two weeks to celebrate Halloween and attend the Marine Corps Birthday Ball. After a costume party for Halloween, we returned to Kyoto and Osaka to see some sights we missed the first time around, then tacked on two nights of glamping at an olive farm on Awaji Island. It required many train rides and schlepping our luggage and Mochi. It was a great, if not exhausting, trip across the Kansai region.
As you certainly know by now, I’m a big baseball fan. As of this writing, I’ve been to 21 of the 30 current MLB ballparks (and 3 that have been torn down). I wrote about my 2024 Midwest road trip here and here. When I received my assignment to Japan, I was immediately excited to check out the baseball scene. Japanese stars have been coming to the US for decades, and I’d love to say that I saw the next Shohei Ohtani or Ichiro Suzuki when they were tearing it up in Japan.
Beer and Diplomacy 
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