Positive momentum. That’s what we’re in the midst of right now. We’ve only had three Wekfest events up in Seattle thus far and we’re on an upward trajectory. I was having dinner with Ken from Wekfest earlier tonight and I was telling him about how the excitement for this tour […]
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Before I started putting this post together, I went and took a trip down memory lane, pulling-up some of my older posts back when I first started traveling to the Pacific Northwest. Those were very different times. Back in 2013, I was knee-deep in magazine print work, often looking for […]
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I wanted a slightly different approach this year covering the Seattle Wekfest event. The previous two shows had been pretty amazing content-wise but I always remember the roll-out being so much more memorable than the set-up phase of the show. Perhaps that has more to do with the stress of […]
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Wekfest Seattle has been one of my favorite events since we started doing the show up there three years ago. Every year it seems to be getting better and there is just this great buzz around the show in that area. It’s a real exciting time. It’s so nice to […]
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This doesn’t need to be said anymore because it is very obvious to my general audience but….I really do love the Pacific Northwest. I always say that I would never even think about leaving California because we have it so great out here, but if there was a place that […]
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Once we arrived in Seattle, I headed down to my buddy Terry’s house to see what he’s been up to lately. When Yasu and I arrived, we were surprised to see that he had taken his Integra apart and was in the process of rebuilding it for the annual Wekfest […]
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On the evening before our final full day in Japan, I make the executive decision to take a bullet train ride down to the Kyushu region, Fukuoka in particular, to visit a tuning shop that I’ve long been wanting to visit but just never found the right time to. M&M […]
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This is a big one! We are back in Osaka, Japan hanging out with just a few days left before returning to the USA. Salem had already left that morning so after we dropped him off at the airport, Yasu takes us over to Speed Forme where we visit some […]
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The ghosts of Honda one-make racing’s past make an appearance in this very special Vlog when we visit the legendary (but often unknown outside of Japan) Racing Garage Suzuka Sennard…known simply in the Kansai region as “Sennard-O”. This engine building facility is known to build some of the most potent […]
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Tokyo and Osaka were fun but we were off to yet another part of Japan to visit more shops and see the unseen. On this episode, we head to the countryside of Mie, an area more popularly recognized for the famed Suzuka Circuit. We visited Suzuka Circuit for the first […]
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