While family duties unfortunately kept me from joining Rod and Antonio at Ebisu Circuit for the Summer Drift Festival this weekend, I did find a little bit of time to slip away and check out the latest round of the Yokomo Drift Meeting at Yatabe Arena here in Tsukuba. Besides the actual RC drifting at the Yokomo Drift Meeting, the number of real cars

I guess I live in a pretty good part of Japan. Rent is cheap, Tokyo is less than an hour away, and there are plenty of car-related things to see and do. Besides the nearby Tsukuba Circuit and Mt. Tsukuba's mountain roads, Tsukuba city is also home to the Yatabe Arena AKA the capital of radio control drifting. Now I am far from knowledgeable about

I was thinking that I had a pretty busy weekend last week, but after hearing Antonio's tales of waking up in three different countries on three consecutive mornings, I guess it wasn't THAT busy. Nonetheless, I did end up packing quite a bit of action into just two days. Friday I spent the day checking out the Tokyo SIS, which you probably just