A certain restaurant in South Africa [October, 1996 South Africa] The first day was over, when our customer said “let’s go to eat lion for dinner”. No kidding, I thought. But it was not a joke. There were restaurants that serve lions, elep…

At a restaurant beside of Kyalami Circuit, South Africa [October, 1996 Johannesburg, South Africa] October, 1996, to Johannesburg, South Africa. It took 13 hours from Hong Kong where I transited. I passed over the equator first time into t…

City of Panama [July, 1994 San Francisco, USA] It was the way back to Japan after Panama. Again I once had to be in the US for transit as there was no direct flight. Most of the flights from the US to Japan leave in the morning, so it’s to…

"Bridge of the Americas" connecting the north and south American continents divided by the Panama canal [July, 1994 Panama] I didn’t listen to the other categories of music than hard rock those days. Especially reggae, the light rhythm was…

Gulf of Panama [July, 1994 Panama] It was very hot and stuffy in Panama in the tropical rainforest climate between the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean on the north and south. Rainy season is from May to December, when they have a sudd…

Panama city [July, 1994 Panama] A meeting was held at our customer’s office as usual. On the second day I got used to I wanted to walk to see the town and walked to the office myself from the hotel without being picked me up. There was a h…

Panama canal [July, 1994 Toronto, Canada => Panama] From Canada in the north America to Panama in the central America. Panama is just to south of Toronto, both are on the 79 degrees longitude west. Could a direct flight take about 5-6 hour…

Lake Ontario, Toronto [July, 1994 Toronto, Canada] I enjoyed shopping at a Record shop? CD shop? and walked around CN tower and the Sky Dome, the home stadium of the Toronto Blue Jays. It was easy to go as the streets crossed each other at…

Tramcars in Toronto, Canada [July, 1994 Toronto, Canada] No ticket for the underground. The fare was a flat rate. A gate was set up like that at amusement parks, where you insert a coin and push one of three metal bars forward, then it cli…

CN Tower and SkyDome (now Rogers Centre), home to the Toronto Blue Jays [July, 1994 Canada] Saturday, 16th July, 1994. A local people of our customer often attend me being in unknown place after work and/or on the day off during my busines…