Okinawa: "Area 51" on Wheels

For all the believers out there....
Coincidentally, while driving near an Air Force Base the other day, my wife noticed that some opaque orbs in the back of a car looked like Aliens... or something to that effect...hummmm.... Subsequently, I noticed that the license plate was simply.... 51. Wallah... a Mobile "Area 51. "
Without question, this has to be an overseas extention of the infamous USofA Area 51. "There heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeere!"
Oh, By-the-way......If we disappear for any reason, look for this Car :) !!

Residential Drunk

A quick look out the window early one Sunday Afternoon (Around 1-2 pm) yielded a rather drunk fellow and his Mamma-San or friend trying to get his butt home.

What I did not get were the photos of the children that were jumping around the scene and the car or two who could not pass this fellow when he was sprawlled out in the alleyways..... Poor fella. :(

Note his jogging gear.. wait maybe he went running and had some beers after a very successful run....


Perhaps this is not so uniquely Okinawan, but this is s first for us... Seeing Mamma-san dragging "Daddy" home.. and at such an early time on a Sunday Afternoon.


Wait, I think that I have been this guy, but only in the Party Districts of Tokyo and not in the calm and mild mannered neighborhoods.

house demolition

Behind the house that we rent here in Okinawa, there's a run-down empty house that apparently wasn't worth saving. I noticed the crews out there one day and tracked their progress over the next three days.





This tractor has like a pincher on it (looks a little like a wire stripper, I think) that grabs and "eats" the concrete.. Most homes are made of concrete or stone (maybe because of the high humidity), so you can't just burn a house down like they might do in the States..





you can really get a sense of how close they were working to the other houses in the neighborhood - as far as I could tell, there was no damage...



and viola! you'd never know there was a house there...