Family

Went to Ireland with Nillie 🦅✨☘️

Sunday we had Dinner with my cousin Pete at O’Neils (est. 1713)

Monday we went to Galway!

With Sinead, Noreen and Gerry at the River Corrib

Lunch and chill with Cousins Mary, Pat, Kevin and Seamus. Derrick and Angus, Noreen and Gerry too.

Thanks Mary for the Awesome Book and Halloween cake 🎃

Didn’t get pictures with the lunch crew, my bad!

Mary and Pete from my 2019 trip with the kids ❤️

Had a few pints and a whiskey at The Kings Head (est. 1649) Noreen got me and Nillie shirts 😎

Took the train back to Dublin and the tram to downtown.

Stayed at StayCity, nice joint! Close to Trinity College

Tuesday got Breakfast with my cousin Paul at the Merchant’s Arch and met up with my Uncle Martin

and cousin Matt at the Stags Head after that.

shoutout to this guy for taking pictures, he got one of himself too 🤣

We went to the Museum of Archaeology

Aaaand more pints with my fellow old school Dublin Bike Messenger bud Steve 🤗

Dinner at The Brazen Head (est. 1198!)

Peep some more pics:

Ha’Penny Bridge Inn

It was a short trip, will stay longer next time 😸

Thanks so much to everyone who took the time to visit!

❤️💚💜

We visited Tserv on Monday. Thanks Jonny for hosting!

Rocking Tokyo Bicycle Delivery since 1989!

Happy to see they still use two way radios, just like Courio-City ! I learned that in Japan most of the clients still call their jobs in.

The bike messenger scene was heavily affected all over the world due to the past few years events. We are down but definitely not out, can I get a Hell Yeah!

We took trains everywhere! So proud of Luca, they traveled as a Champ!

Tokyo has Eight train companies and they work together incredibly.

Yo The garbage and recycling trucks are tiny compared to the ones I work with at DSNY!

From what I can see, NYC can learn a lot from Japan about reducing waste. Each One Teach One!

Chikappa came out to meet us before we started the Sky Tour Bus Ride. Homie is the current Cycle Messenger World Champion and will be defending in Yokohama at CMWC in September!

Sky Bus Tour was Fresh! Peep some pics

📸 by Luca

I Love You Luca and I’m so Happy we made this trip together!

Thanks to all our friends in Japan! And Special Thanks to my Business Partner Marc, with his help this trip was possible!

Tokyo Disney on Friday. It was Hot!

Conferring with my travel pal, Splash Mountain was the best ride.

Space Mountain took Second.

Haunted Mansion and Pirates of the Caribbean rounded out the top four.

Star Tours 3D Ride gets honorable mention 😎

Saturday we went to a screen printing party in Harajuku at Espokyo!

Reunited with my Brother RK !

Me and RK at Seattle CMWC 2003 🦅✨

Yasuyo and Yuki were hanging out too ❤️💜💚

ESPO

We hit the Sanrio store on Takeshita street and chilled with Mr. Usayama

Yasuyo dropped us off in Setagaya City, we rocked out with a bunch of awesome punk bands at an all ages show🤘

Most of these are Luca’s Photos! GREEN EYED MONSTER

THE STARBEMS

WHAT GOES UP

SOCIAL CIRCUIT

FOUR GET ME A NOTS 📸 kawada_photo

Been working on this trip for over a year and so happy to be back in Japan!

First time for the Twelve year old, Fifth time for me!

I raced here at KYOTOLOCO in 2003, 2004, and 2005!

Returned with Velo City Tour to Nagoya in 2012 😎

We Arrived early Tuesday at Haneda Airport and took a train to Shinagawa which is close to our AirBnB. Check in wasn’t until 4pm tho, we put our luggage in lockers at the train station then headed to meet my friend Yasuyo at the Mikoshi Festival in Omiya.

We trained it from Omiya to Shibuya and spent the rainy afternoon at a record shop and pizza joint.

It was heavy thunderstorms! Pleasantly surprised by the waiter at the pizza shop giving us umbrellas when we left ❤️

Wednesday we headed to Chiyoda City and got travel sim cards for our phones. Also checked out the og godzilla statue by toho studios. After that we trained it to Shinjuku, picked up another GZ sighting and hit some more record shops.

We scored some Japanese hardcore band shirts at Disk Union and! a flyer for a live music show on Saturday.

We were advised that it’s kid friendly so… Yeah! We will be there 😆

Today we went to Yokohama on the Shinkansen Could have taken the regular trains but I figured hey, Good experience for the kiddo!

First stop in Yokohama was Courio-City ! Yanaken and crew have been doing the thing for 20+ years and business is great!

They are also organizing CMWC 2023! I am going to miss it but so glad I could visit 😸

Thanks for lunch Yanaken! First traditional style for us since we got here ❤️💚💙

We hit the CupNoodle Museum after lunch! The twelve year old is allergic to photos, so more of me haha.

Peeped the Gundam Factory after that, Sweet!