Jake

Forklifts used to keep me local, but now I get around on occasion with the traveling forklift history exhibition.

At 1:30 AM local time, I couldn’t sleep, so I turned on the T.V. Saw a young fellow on the tube and thought “Hey! That looks like Jake Shimabukuro!” quickly followed by “You’re in Tokyo. LOTS of people look like Jake Shimabukuro.” But in fact I had lucked into an entire show about the history of the ukulele, with a tour of the Kamaka factory and interviews with Jake and his family.

To a person traveling in Japan with a ukulele, it was a good sign.

[posted 10/8. Spelling corrected 10/11. And 10/14 ;)]