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Tsuyama Cherry Blossom season

Hey, it`s not all cars, ok!Every end of March/early April our local park (Kakuzan) turns into an explosion of pink with over 5000 cherry trees:-)

The Japanese (and foreigners) make the most of this and during the daytime many enjoy wandering thru the park, while at night, many enjoy picnics, b-b-q and singing karaoke while drinking.Man there are some crazy people out, lol.

GoodRoad D1 Proshop visit

Recently purchased the GoodRoad D1 democar and as I`d never visited the shop really wanted an excuse to head south!

Great drive over the Seto Ohashi bridge, a combination of span bridges totally 14km between islands to Shikoku!Great day, outstanding shop and Murata-san a very easy going guy!Looking forward to heading there again!

Unfortunately, my pics don`t seem to be uploading so will try and add again later!

Pit Road M visit

Only 40minutes drive away is reknowned circuit and drag car tuning shop Pit Road.Had to stop by!Lots of awesome machines and quite a few gathering dust!Excellent facilities and very friendly team.Looking forward to building things up with them!

MSC at Aida Int. Raceway

Don`t get many drift events at our local race circuit Aida, which is about 35min. drive away so gotta go when they`re going down;)

Caught up with a few of the teams that I know, and met a few teams new, which is always nice.The final wasn`t even close as Jikuya had way too much power for the Supra and played with his opponent:)

Visit to T&E Vertex

Killed 2 birds with one stone as had business in Tokyo and had also purchased T&E Vertex`s awesome green S14 democar, as featured in a lot of their advertising so swung by their Suivax shop to pick it up and introduce myself to the guys personally.They were busy as they were getting ready to leave for D1 event at Ebisu.Wish I could have stayed and joined them!Really nice people to deal with and drove ithe S14 back (about 9hour drive) from Yokohama to Tsuyama, Okayama.Beautiful drive and car is SWEET!