“My FIFA story”

In 2002, I was working in Taipei, and Seoul. The FIFA World Cup was being held in Japan and South Korea at the time.

I was already pissed off as I was boarding my flight in SFO for Narita Japan…
I had been making the 24 hour commute (each way),DC-SFO-Narita-Taipei, for about 6 months.
Until this trip I had been able to get upgraded to Business Class. Because of all of the Soccer teams and fans, the damn planes were packed.
It was so bad, that upon landing in Narita, they parked the 747 out on the tarmac, and used portable stairs because they didn’t have enough gates.
You don’t really have an appreciation for how big a 747 is, until you climb or descend those stairs. The door close to three storeys off of the ground.

Anyway, as I walked into the Coach section of the airplane, the entire right side of Coach, was the Argentinian National Soccer team. My seat was three rows from the back bulkhead, aisle seat.
As I got closer I realized that one of the players was occupying my ...

“New Safari Picture”

For me at least.
We had lunch with MBB and Nan.
He showed me something in his phone. I hadn’t seen this picture before so I had him send it to me.

Picture; MBB, the Sable he harvested, and me. August ‘23