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are a couple of people who grew up in Japan standing at the entrance
to Himeji Castle. The fact that Kim is a native speaker was incredibly
helpful during our recent trip to Japan. |
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Castle is the only one from the samurai era that was completely undamaged
by bombing during World War II. |
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part of our trip involved researching behind the scenes operations
at Japan Airlines, I was given the rare honor of taking off from
and landing at Tokyo's Narita airptort in a JAL 747 flight simulator. |
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Airlines is incredibly safety conscious. All cabin crew members are
giving yearly refresher training in various emergency procedures.
Here's Kim participating in a water landing drill. |
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I went
to a ranch at the foot of Mt. Adams in Washington state for a week
of solitude to do some writing. While at the ranch, which has a reputation
for being a UFO hotspot, I was very interested to see some strange
objects flying in the night skies above the mountain. I don't know
if they were "ours" or "theirs", but as someone
who has briefly piloted a few airplanes (civilian and military)
and ridden in a lot more, I can say that the objects behaved differently
from any publicly known craft!
The day before
I left the ranch, a fire broke out on the mountain. It was particularly
sad to me, since I'm an animal lover, as you might have guessed
from my May 2008 adventure. |
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After the strike,
I went back to work on BONES at the Fox Studio and found one of
the Commissary lawn squirrels lost three levels underground in
the parking garage. I gave it a ride back up to the lawn in my
Prius since I like to help the "underdog" - see Nov.
07 below: |
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Solidarity with
Fox TV's BONES Co-Executive Producer/Writer Scott Williams at
the writers strike day 5 rally at Fox. |
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(Photos by
BONES Producer/Writer Liz Benjamin) |
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Click
on the photo to see Kim
and me dancing, as the King himself officiates at our wedding. |
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I prevailed upon
a passing tourist to snap this candid action photo of me proposing
to Kim on
the Eiffel Tower. |
