02-08-2015, 06:44 PM
User, good post...it must have taken forever to research and put that together.
Mo, I always enjoy your perspective and learning about the political intricacies of this current mess in our world.
I chuckled about the straw hats and riding through the rice paddies (think that is what you said). In Hong Kong, back in the 50's my friend and I bought "straw" hats as it was raining and they turned out to be perfect rain hats. When we arrived at airport, everyone was pointing and giggling at us. Guess we bought "coolie" hats which wasn't a good thing in the caste system at the time...
Later at the Special Services Hotel at base of Fuji Mountain in Japan, my boyfriend and i rode a motorbike through the rice paddies with a straw hat (yes, it was raining at the time), but everyone just waved at us. We were staying at the Hotel which was then owned by U.S. (result of WW2); the Hotel has since been turned back over to the Japanese Gov't....Oh what memories. Riding through the rain in the rice paddies with straw hats and my true love....(well, one of them).
Mo, I always enjoy your perspective and learning about the political intricacies of this current mess in our world.
I chuckled about the straw hats and riding through the rice paddies (think that is what you said). In Hong Kong, back in the 50's my friend and I bought "straw" hats as it was raining and they turned out to be perfect rain hats. When we arrived at airport, everyone was pointing and giggling at us. Guess we bought "coolie" hats which wasn't a good thing in the caste system at the time...
Later at the Special Services Hotel at base of Fuji Mountain in Japan, my boyfriend and i rode a motorbike through the rice paddies with a straw hat (yes, it was raining at the time), but everyone just waved at us. We were staying at the Hotel which was then owned by U.S. (result of WW2); the Hotel has since been turned back over to the Japanese Gov't....Oh what memories. Riding through the rain in the rice paddies with straw hats and my true love....(well, one of them).